Re: Tuning Xawtv

[Richard <degage teleport com>]

> Mickel wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I installed Xawtv to watch TV with my Hauppauge PCI card on redhat
> 6.2.  So far all I can get is a blank TV screen and nothing happens
> when I try to tune it, the application loads and appears to run
> correctly.  I do however get a message saying that my display driver
> is old and that I should upgrade it before reporting bugs.  My
> computer is fairly new and I wouldn't have expected that to be the
> problem.  I can watch TV perfectly on windoze98, as its a dual boot
> system I can't see why it should be the display driver causing
> problems.
> 
> If this is the problem, how can I upgrade the driver ?  Where can I
> get a driver, I'm guessing from the company that manufactured my
> computer ?
> 
> Any ideas how to get TV working ?
> 
> 
> Thanx in advance :)
> 
> 
> Graeme
> 
Try this link to xawtv page:  http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
They seem fairly insistent on having the correct version of bttv or
video4linux running with a specific version of xawtv.  I spent some time
getting all of these to agree to work together.  Good luck.  Richard