François, Check to make sure that your user has permissions to the devices /dev/video and /dev/video0. It may be that they has overly restrictive permissions which prevent you from accessing the device. Deven Phillips, CISSP "François Guimond" wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've recently bought an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 32MB AGP and I'm trying to > get it to work with RedHat 7.1 (2.4.2-2 kernel).. When trying to start > xawtv I get the following: > > This is xawtv-3.34, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.2-2) > visual: id=0x23 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24 > visual: id=0x24 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24 > visual: id=0x25 class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24 > visual: id=0x26 class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24 > image format list for port 46 > 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed > 0x59565955 (UYVY) packed > 0x32315659 (YV12) planar > 0x30323449 (I420) planar > Xv: using port 46 for hw scaling > x11: 1024x768, 32 bit/pixel, 4096 byte/scanline, DGA > can't open /dev/video0: No such device > open /dev/video0: Permission denied > v4l: open /dev/video0: Permission denied > no video grabber device available > > I checked and the /dev/video0 file does exist.. any clues what might be > causing this and what should I be investigating? > > Thanks, > > DP > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d+ s: a- C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E- W+ N++ o-- K w--- O M-- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ 5+++ X+ R tv+ b+ DI+ D- G e* h--- r++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
