granted, using an all-in-wonder card in linux is a pain in the ass, and i 
obviously wouldn't make that mistake again, but for now, i'm stuck with it 
and i have lost the ability to watch tv on my computer...  anyone care to 
help?  here's the story:

1. installed gentoo from 1.4rc4 cd including kde using various USE flags.

2. went to gatos.sourceforge.net, downloaded the latest binary drivers 
decompressed the tarball, and copied the drivers into their assigned 
directories: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri /drivers /multimedia

3. watched some tv (yay!)

4. discovered the "debug" use flag, added it to my USE flags and ran:
  "emerge --emptytree world"

5. repeated step 2.

6. typing xawtv at the command prompt give me:

(~) $ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-gentoo-r6)
can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available


there is no /dev/v4l/anything, but from what i found online, the gatos drivers 
don't actually use it, instead they use the X drivers i copied into those 
directories, but for some reason, i still have no tv...  have you seen my tv?

the only thing i have to offer those who might help is the following snippet 
from /var/log/XFree86.0.log:

  (**) RADEON(0): Using AGP 4x mode
  (II) RADEON(0): AGP Fast Write disabled by default
  (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default
  (II) RADEON(0): Page flipping disabled
  (!!) RADEON(0): For information on using the multimedia capabilities
   of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net.
  (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
  (II) resource ranges after preInit:

everything else works (glxgears a little slow, but i don't play games in linux 
anyway).  i just miss my tv....


-- 
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their 
lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things 
they don't need to impress people they dislike.
        - emile henry gauvreay


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