On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 19:52, Jack wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 19:05 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 17:26, Jack wrote: > > > Hi... I am a newbie to Linux and I have a related question: I have > > > installed a couple of video capture programs and both complain about > > > not having video4linux drivers. I've looked high and low for these > > > drivers and the closest I've come is RivaTV (which didn't work). > > > > I may have missed something - if so, accept my apologies. I don't recall > > ever hearing you say that v4l is installed - have you checked that? If > > not, install it, > > > > You then need to add > > Load v4l > > into the Modules section of /etc/X11/XF86-4.conf (if you are using xorg > > someone else will have to tell you where to put this). > > > > You may also need > > v4l2-common > > in modprobe.preload > > Anne, thanks for the quick reply. A number of comments: > > 1. My main question was... *how* do you install the v4l driver? It's > not in the install drake. Where do I find it? > It's a kernel module, I think. That 'Load v4l' line should find it and install it.
> 2. I do not have an /etc/x11/xf84-4.conf file but I do > have /etc/x11/xf86.conf. I looked in there and there's an error in the > modules section (I think). The "load v4l" was there but it had > inadvertently been commented out with an #################### before the > "endsection." I removed this line. > > 3. I inserted the "v4l2-common" line in modprobe.preload as per your > instructions. > > (Now I think all I need to learn is how to install the v4l module)... > I think you have done that, by the sound of it. BTW, you have never said which version of Mdk you are using, have you? I don't have a tv card, but I needed xawtv to work so that I could work with capturing from a camcorder. I had great problems getting it to work, and it turned out to be the need for a local config file that was missing. Various people told me to get xawtv going first, then once that was working I could try other TV programs. It may be worth doing that yourself. If you need it I'll post the local config file that I use for xawtv. You can then adapt it to your needs. The problem is that without a model you haven't a clue what is needed. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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