On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 14:04 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote:
> 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.
Hi Dennis... thanks for the reply... I did this and it seemed to install
but I still get the "can't find v4l msg" in my capture program. {sigh}
- Jack
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