Es schrieb Michael Kipper: > > Hello, > > I have been working on install MythTV for a couple months now, and must seek > outside help :( > I am using Debian Linux 3.0r1 on an Athlon XP 2200+ with 512MB RAM. > I have a Mercury SAA7130 based capture card, with onboard FM radio and > remote. > Mostly Debian packages, but source installs of MythTV 0.12, lame, xmltv, > expat, alsa, saa7134 and patched linux kernel. > I'm using KDE 3.1.4 as my window manager. GeForce 420 MX using latest nVIDIA > drivers from their website. > > I can load xawtv just fine in overlay mode, but when I switch to grabdisplay > mode, the screen is just black. > Also, when I load MythTV (front and back), everything works fine until I > press 'Watch Live TV', and everything goes black. > > Note the error: > > # v4l-conf > v4l-conf: using X11 display :0 > dga: version 2.0 > mode: 640x480, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=2560, base=0xe4000000 > /dev/video0 [v4l2]: ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: Invalid argument > /dev/video0 [v4l]: configuration done > Hi, yes that should be "[v4l2]: configuration done". Your /dev/video0 is not recognized as a v4l2 device. Loading the bttv-0.7.107 (v4l1) looks insane. To get rid of it is maybe something to start with. Greetings Hermann