On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:52 pm, Jack wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 19:05 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 17:26, Jack wrote: > > > Hi... I am a newbie to Linux and I have a related question: I have > > > installed a couple of video capture programs and both complain about > > > not having video4linux drivers. I've looked high and low for these > > > drivers and the closest I've come is RivaTV (which didn't work). > > > > I may have missed something - if so, accept my apologies. I don't recall > > ever hearing you say that v4l is installed - have you checked that? If > > not, install it, > > > > You then need to add > > Load v4l > > into the Modules section of /etc/X11/XF86-4.conf (if you are using xorg > > someone else will have to tell you where to put this). > > > > You may also need > > v4l2-common > > in modprobe.preload > > Anne, thanks for the quick reply. A number of comments: > > 1. My main question was... *how* do you install the v4l driver? It's > not in the install drake. Where do I find it? > > 2. I do not have an /etc/x11/xf84-4.conf file but I do > have /etc/x11/xf86.conf. I looked in there and there's an error in the > modules section (I think). The "load v4l" was there but it had > inadvertently been commented out with an #################### before the > "endsection." I removed this line. > > 3. I inserted the "v4l2-common" line in modprobe.preload as per your > instructions. > > (Now I think all I need to learn is how to install the v4l module)... > > - Jack Jack, if you have urpmi sources do a "urpmi v4l2" I don't find just v4l rpms anymore, although I may not be looking in the right sources. But, there is a v4l2 rpm available as I recall. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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