Re: Tuning Xawtv

[Richard <degage teleport com>]

Richard wrote:
> 
> > 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
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Don't know how that happened.  The correct link to the xawtv page is: 
http://www.strusel007.de/linux/xawtv/index.html
The previous one was to page for ATI-specific drivers for xawtv.  Sorry,
Richard