hello: I am a newbie about linux video, I use Redhat 7.2 for test my video card. my video card was based BT878A chipset. and no turner and some others ,it just a video card. include composite1,composite2,and S-VIDEO. I use xawtv-3,76 in my machine, and bttv-0.7.65 downloaded driver, I compile the bttv successful and : insmod videodev.o insmod bttv.o just fine about that. and I compile xawtv also successful and enter X-windows I test this: /xawtv (my linux use 1024x768 solutions) it appear the following errors: ======================================================== This is xawtv-3.76 ,running on Linux/i686 (2.4.7-10custom) v4l:timeout (got SIGALRM) ,hardware/driver problems? ioctl:VIDIOCSYNC(0) Interrupted System Call ioctl:VIDIOCMCAPTUER(0,fmt=4,size=48x32):Device or resource busy. ioctl: ................... =============================================================== I find some method from google.com and modify SYNC_TIMEOUT to 8 and 12, this add timeout for xawtv ,but it is not work. can someone help me? thanks. jacky cuirf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2002-09-24