Thanks, Alan, There is nothing showing up in xawtv. The message is; >> This is xawtv-3.54, running on linux/i686 (2.4.7-2) /dev/video0 [v4l] no overlay support ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0, fmt=7, size=160x120): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0, fmt=5, size=160x120): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0, fmt=3, size=160x120): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0, fmt=1, size=160x120): Invalid argument no way to get: 384x288 32 bit truecolor (LE: bgr~) << I don't understand. What option I need to set in order to get the right image capture. Thanks