Beautifull BLONDE and LONELY Girl needs help...
 

I´m 1.8m tall, BLONDEEE, BEAUTIFULL , SINGLE and looking for my TWIN SOUL...:)

Hello everyone. I know my way very well around Windows 98 and I recently installed Red Hat 7.1 as a second O.S. in my computer in a seperate partition. I beleave it is time to loose my addiction on B. Gates products. No problems there, everything went well. However I realy need help on this subject - I have read HowTo´s, searched the net, gone to the public library at my home town,etc, etc... and nothing .

I have a Pinnacle PCTV card that works well in Windows 98, but I would like to make it work in Linux as well.

I instaled xawtv and when I try to "activate" it system says:
v4l: open/dev/video0: no such device
no video grabber device available

However in ( KDE )Controle Center\Information\PCI there is this info:
-Multimedia video controler: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 ( rev 17 )

Linux knows something is there but doesn´t know what it is for? How can I "configure" my Tv Card?
How can I "configure" .../video0?
How do I get Linux to recognize it and let me work with it?

I searched this forum and found 2 more help requests on this subject but no answers to our problem. I tried the newbie forum firs but seems like no one these knows the answer. I realy have tried to get awnsers in HowTo´s and Tv grabber instructions programs for Linux like xawtv, bttv, kwintv and zapping.
Yes I must be a Linux DUMMY but still I would realy love to get some help on this subject.

Thank for your attention

kabong.

Cross reference.. posting the same question won't get you an answer any faster... cross reference here as i gave you some sort of an answer too...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=5590

Well, Kabong, are you sure you aren't really dirty old Bart posing as a blonde just to get a quicker reply?

It sounds strange, but I selected my distribution only because it had the SiS 620 video chipset supported. I'm not a purist, obviously. Maybe it would be easier to shop around and find a distribution that supports your hardware rather than trying to get the blasted X thing working manually from the command prompt. You'd need the help of a real guru to acomplish that! Cheetos anyone?