On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 20:44 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 19:52, 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? > > > It's a kernel module, I think. That 'Load v4l' line should find it and > install 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)... > > > I think you have done that, by the sound of it. BTW, you have never said > which version of Mdk you are using, have you? > > I don't have a tv card, but I needed xawtv to work so that I could work with > capturing from a camcorder. I had great problems getting it to work, and it > turned out to be the need for a local config file that was missing. Various > people told me to get xawtv going first, then once that was working I could > try other TV programs. It may be worth doing that yourself. If you need it > I'll post the local config file that I use for xawtv. You can then adapt it > to your needs. The problem is that without a model you haven't a clue what > is needed. > > Anne
Hi again Anne... my version of Mandrake is 10.1 community and, yes, I would greatly appreciate that local config file. I will try installing xawtv and let inform you of developments... - Jack
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