Okay were are cooking with gas: - kernel recompiled with loadable module support - dc10+ card recognized - modules.conf setup correctly Next problem comes when running the Perl script made with Video-Capture-V4l. I get an error message of: v4l_set_format() video buffer size (128kB) is too small I have 256MB of RAM now installed. Suggestions please? Thanks for all the help so far (Robert especially). r.b.