I pulled this off the net, it's the same problem that I'm having, does anyone have an answer? ------- ------- ------- > > I was afraid of that. Somehow xawtv seems happy to change the values, but it does complain when it first starts up if I've already run MythTV: pioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(brightness=32768;hue=32768;colour=32512;contrast=27648;whiteness=0;depth=0;palette=unknown): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(brightness=32768;hue=32768;colour=32512;contrast=27648;whiteness=0;depth=0;palette=unknown): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(brightness=32768;hue=32768;colour=32512;contrast=27648;whiteness=0;depth=0;palette=unknown): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(brightness=32768;hue=32768;colour=32512;contrast=27648;whiteness=0;depth=0;palette=unknown): Invalid argument I don't know if that's an indication of anything but my system's brokenness, but I thought I'd share my pain :-) Is anyone else running with Red Hat 9's latest kernel (2.4.20-18.9)? Mike