[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem installing TV card.

[Steve Baker]

Hi!

   I bought a TV card (a FlyVideo 2000) for my son's PC (SuSE 8.1).

Being a caring parent, I've given myself plenty of time to sneakily
install it on his PC before Xmas day!

   However, I'm having no luck.

   I used YAST2 to select the device driver (it didn't auto-detect it) - did
the basic configuration, etc.

   Now, I can to an 'lsmod' and see this line has appeared:

     videodev  4480   0  (autoclean)

   All well and good so far.  However, when I try to fire up xawtv,
everything in the user interface seems to work and there were no
error message - but I don't get any kind of picture or audio...just
a blue screen.

   I also tried kwintv - and it was a bit more forthcoming:

can't open /dev/video: No such device
Warning: kwintv: kv4lsetup had some trouble, trying to continue anyway.
Fatal: v4lx: Error opening v4lx device /dev/video: No such device in ::v4lxif

   OK - so /dev/video is a symlink to /dev/video0 and that ls's as:

   crw-------    1 steve    users     81,   0 Mar 23  2002 /dev/video0

...which looks good to me (I'm running kwintv as user 'steve').

So what's going on?  What it this 'v41xif' thing?

Help!

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