xawtv worked on live cd but not after installed to hd

Submitted by nicsmr on Tue, 03/29/2005 - 23:51. Using Software
Posts: 130

Hello all,

Had to reinstall mepis to hard drive.

Was trying out xawtv while on live CD but now xawtv does not run when chosen from the kde menu.

when typing the command xawtx on the root command line I get this

This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.10)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available

any ideas what to do to get xawtv to run?

nick

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hi nick, just been figuring

Submitted by pod on Wed, 03/30/2005 - 08:52.
Posts: 471

hi nick,
just been figuring this out so may be able to help a bit...
the /dev/video0 device is created when the correct driver is loaded at boot.
do you have any card details handy?
(and which bit of the world are you in, it matters)
as a quick test, boot from the cd, open a command prompt and type
lsmod
look for either bttv or saa7134
if you see either then reboot to harddrive and run it again.
whichever was there before is probably missing now.
if so then you have to run as root
modprobe ssa7134 card=2 tuner=17
(card and tuner could be different depending on card / region)
i'm not sure of the syntax for modprobing with the bttv driver.
for a list of options have a read of
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134
once you've found the right settings for your card then open a text editor as root and edit /etc/modules adding something like
saa7134 card=x tuner=y oss=1
and reboot