well....i installed the standard 2.4.29 kernel + modules, added a new user and rebooted.
login as new user.

kdetv--->while scanning channels, i see a picture coming by every now and then.
after a while ( 31 % done ) it hangs.
xawtv--->starts-up with a blue screen, but i could search and find cannels.

so this setup works .
i'd say,if your card is detected correct maybe try xawtv again.
right-click in the window and you'll get a menu.
choose channel edit ( or smth. like that ), put the mousepointer above the channel-number
and use arrow-keys to find a channel.

egag

OK, could you tell me once again exactly how to and which modules do you install.

if you have: Load "v4l" in your xorg.conf,
i think all you have to do is " #modprobe bttv "
( and maybe not even that.... )

then just run xawtv and see if you can get any channel, as described above.

egag

i don't have /dev/video. I was just wondering where you got the 'c 81 0' part from?
so far i've installed the latest ATI drivers, then the GATOS km kernel module. Then i tried to install avview, but it wouldn't compile so installed xawtv
which gives me the "no /dev/video" error. so i installed the ati.2 driver for xorg from GATOS as well but i still get the same error.

i have an aiw 9800 which isn't detected by lspci, but after i2c is loaded xorg logs show:

(II) LoadModule: "i2c"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a
(II) Module i2c: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.1, module version = 1.2.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(II) fglrx(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized.
(II) fglrx(0): Connector Layout from BIOS --------
(II) fglrx(0): Connector1: DDCType-3, DACType-0, TMDSType-0, ConnectorType-3
(II) fglrx(0): All-In-Wonder card detected
(**) fglrx(0): MonitorLayout Option:
Monitor1--Type AUTO, Monitor2--Type AUTO

(II) fglrx(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< to me that sounds good!
(II) fglrx(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<but what happened here?
(II) fglrx(0): DDC detected on DDCType 3 with Monitor Type 1 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< and now?
(II) fglrx(0): Primary head:
Monitor -- CRT
Connector -- DVI-I
DAC Type -- Primary
TMDS Type -- Internal
DDC Type -- VGA_DDC

can i do the mknod thing with the 0xA0?

well....don't know how it is now but at the time of this writing :

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...cat=182&page=1

there was no tv-support in linux for that card.

egag