On Saturday 26 June 2004 07:53, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > I have just installed Xandros on my computer but cannot get a driver for > my Winfast VC100 capture card. Can some one help me because I would > like to continue usinig Linux. I have emailed the suppliers nut no > luck. They dont have one
I'm not sure if all this is appropriate for a "A Complete Beginner" but we all have to jump in somewhere. Note that I do not have either a copy of the Xandros distribution nor a Winfast VC100 capture card. However I think it is very possible that the latest Linux kernel has the drivers ready for you. Xandros _might_ distribute the modules ready compiled. Find out with the command:- find /lib -iname 'bttv*' -ls If you get a line of output then the driver is ready built, and you can install it using the modprobe or insmod command, if not then you need to build it. Get a copy of the latest kernel archive, linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2 and un-archive it. Debian and derivatives have their particular ways of doing this. If you scan the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv you will see a line:- card=114 - Winfast VC100 Now read the:- file:/usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/README <quote> To use the driver I use the following options, the tuner and pll settings might be different in your country insmod videodev insmod i2c scan=1 i2c_debug=0 verbose=0 insmod tuner type=1 debug=0 insmod bttv pll=1 radio=1 card=17 </quote> Fairly obviously you will have to use the correct card number ( card=114 ) and probably experiment with the other settings. See also the other files in that directory. You might care to reference the home of video4linux http://linux.bytesex.org/ in particular:- http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.7-1/ It would almost certainly be a good idea to apply the appropriate patches. The new and horrendously comprehensive kernel Building HOWTO is also very relevent:- http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/ With a lot of reading between the lines and a considerable amount of experimenting, I think this card could be got to go. btw folks, is this sort of thing appropriate for the InstallFest? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
