Re: /dev/video0 problems

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You need to load the appropriate kernel driver for the ATI's capture
section.

The bad news is that it looks like the driver isn't part of the kernel.

You might read: http://www.reades.com/radeon.html which google found as
the second hit. Seems to be a fairly detailed walkthrough.

Cheers,

Mark

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 04:22, David McBride wrote:
> I am kinda new to linux, so please be patient with me.
> History of  the problem: I installed RedHat 7.3 on a P4 1.8 Ghz with
> ATI Radeon 7000 All in Wonder card.  I downloaded and installed
> mpeg4ip and could not get it to work.  I read some documentation and
> found several suggestions to get xawtv working first.  So I downloaded
> and installed xawtv 3.80.  It did the same thing.  The error is "cant
> open /dev/video0: no such device".  I checked the /dev and found
> video, video0, video1, etc....  video is a directory, but video 1 - 4
> are all the c type and I even did chmod 777 on all video0 - 4
> devices.  I even ran MAKEDEV.v4l.  I saw that it put a symbolic link
> in, but same error.  I even formated and reinstalled Red Hat 7.3 and
> picked to install xawtv as a package off the CD's.  Version 3.73 comes
> with RedHat 7.3.
> I am trying to get live video from a VHS camcorder through the RCA
> jacks on the ATI All in Wonder card.
>  
> Please, please help.  I have been working on this for over a week and
> been to the mpeg4ip mailing list and they said that it was probably a
> video4linux problem.
>  
> Please help.
>  
-- 
Mark Cooke <mpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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