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Just recently I decided to set up my ati ve wonder card on RH9, I noticed that I have xawtv. I went to run xawtv and realized that it was just giving me a blank screen with ???, actually sending snow all over my screen, which I think is from overlay. I know that when I run xawtv it pops up but no go, so can some point me in the right direction on what do I do next. Sorry for being such a NoOb.
I did not do anything to xawtv, it was already pre-installed on RH, i think.
When I run *xawtv* at the command prompt, this is wat I see n get.....
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This is xawtv-3.73, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18-3)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available
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Could someone tell me as to what I should do ?? wat shud I do to get / have / see the device ????
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