hi, I have 4 pixelview that used to work properly on xawtv, but hence I upgraded and patched the 2.4.20 kernel, the /dev/video1 stopped working. .. xawtv gives me this error message: v4l: timeout (got SIGALRM), hardware/driver problems? ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Interrupted system call ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=15,size=48x32): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=3,size=48x32): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=4,size=48x32): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=5,size=48x32): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=1,size=48x32): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=13,size=48x32): Device or resource busy this error only comes up when I use 0.7.x. I tried 0.9.x and there is no error messages, but when I run two xawtvs, each one reading a different /dev/video, they keep "exchanging" the captured imagens, causing a weird flickering picture... for example, the first xawtv window show its own picture then the picture of the other xawtv at 30 frames per second (15 its own and 15 of other). I have to use 0.7.x, so, any idea of the xawtv error messages? ah, I'm using xawtv 3.85 really thanks Fabio Roger