On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, warren hrach wrote: > I am sure you are on the right list and on topic. > Actually I have little knowledge of patches, or tarballs relating to > tvcards and xawtv. > I first got a AverTV video stereo card and installed on my R.H. V7.2 but > that took a kernel recompile and someone else did it for me. When I > installed RH V8.0 the card was detected immediatley and all I had to do > was run 'scantv' or similar to start the .xawtv file in my user dir. > I keep my RH uptodate using up2date often. My current kernel is > 2.4.20-18.0 updated when kernel updates are announced. > I did try RH 9.0 but when xawtv did not want to work correctly I just went > back to 8.0. It may well be RH 9.0 is now working better with xawtv and > tvcards but for no will stick to RH 8.0. > > YMMV so all I can say is I see no need to mess with patches tarballs etc, > stick with RedHat and it should work. Warren, I am not using Redhat, I use Slackware. I was under the impression this list was only hosted by Redhat, not for Redhat-specific setups. Thank you, Bryan