[NTLUG:Discuss] xawtv w/ ATI all-in-wonder pcTV card

[Steve and Daphne Martindell]

I installed an ATI all-in-wonder Radeon 7500 agp video card.

As a video card it runs fine w/ SuSE 8.2.

When I try to run xawtv I get the following transcript:

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/home/stevem/Linux> xawtv
This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-4GB-athlon)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: 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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Also,
/home/stevem/Linux> lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss            50144   0  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          15704   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
videodev                6176   0  (autoclean)
usbserial              19580   0  (autoclean) (unused)
parport_pc             28200   1  (autoclean)

< but no tuner >  ????

and

/home/stevem/Linux> modprobe videodev   <--  returns nothing

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Do I need to create a mount point for /dev/video0?

The bttv-howto also mentions editting the /etc/modules.conf
file, but doesn't provide much information. Also talks about
recompiling the kernel.


    does anyone know how to get xawtv to work?

    thanks,
        -steve
        smartind at comcast.org