Checked that - I used the MAKEDEV script supplied by xawtv - even did an ls -laF /dev/vid* and verified that they arte character devices. Thanks anyway. Alan -----Original Message----- From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Terence Jones Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 1:48 PM To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Problems with v4l-conf ... Any chance that /dev/video is a directory and not a device? dave What about permissions? guessing ;-) Alan Miles wrote: > I have an ATI radeon all-in-one card and am running 2.4.9-ac10 and X 4.1.0 > on a 1.1G anthlon with 720M RAM. > > Put the > > load "v4" > > line in my XF86conf file as well as DRM etc. Also made the /dev/video > devices. I also modprobed the "radeon" kernel unit and the XF86conf uses the > "radeon" driver. > > However, when I run v4l-conf, I get a message saying that /dev/video0 > doesn't exist. Ultimately I am trying to run xawtv to watch TV under Linux > (I can watch TV under M$ W2K). > > Any suggestions? > > Thanx, > > Alan > Programmer/Analyst > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
