On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:21:22PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: >On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:14:04PM -0500, Brian Victor wrote: >> I've seen references to bigphysarea, which I will try now. Thanks for >> your help! >The bigphysarea changes will help, or loading the module just after booting >may be enough. Whichever one it was, it seems to have done the trick with the buffer error. So now xawtv runs, but it gives me only a black screen. I'm putting coax into the card (NTSC, US Cable) and going out of an NVidia card's TV-out. xawtv gives the following info on the terminal: This is xawtv-3.90, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.23) ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct ioctl: VIDIOCGCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t config: invalid value for input: Television valid choices for "input": config: invalid value for norm: NTSC valid choices for "norm": "PAL", "NTSC", "SECAM", "AUTO" v4l: timeout (got SIGALRM), hardware/driver problems? ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(int=0): Interrupted system call ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=32;width=48;format=15): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=32;width=48;format=9): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=32;width=48;format=3): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=32;width=48;format=4): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=32;width=48;format=5): Device or resource busy ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=32;width=48;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=32;width=48;format=13): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t ioctl: VIDIOCGCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(channel=1080074100;name="t Thanks for your help! -- Brian