On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Christopher Rosendahl wrote: > You should make the video dev first > go to /dev and type ./MAKEDEV video > to make the device yeah ! as i indicated, i already have video devices ! i followed the BTTV-mini-howto and got (i think) 8 devices, but still got the same error... i carried my pc to my working-place to get net-coonection and tried to install and upgrade everything that has to do with video and comes with Debian/potato. --> now i have 64 (!) video devices, but still there is the same error ("/dev/video : No such device"); the /dev/video file is a symbolic link to /dev/video0; i tried to relink to severaly other devices (/dev/video1 ...) but with not much success so that's not really my problem > and its recommended to upgrade tp xf4.0.1 because theres alot of bugfixes in it > i'll try to do this, but since xf4.0.1 is not yet supported officially by Debian (i think, it won't make the race to the final potato release) i have to compile it myself and this makes some trouble up till now (but it was the same with xf4.0.0 and i went beyond it) mfg.dfas.asr iohannes