/dev/video0

[MosX]

In the 2.4 kernel, using XawTV was easy. The device file used by default, /dev/video0, worked perfectly. Now in 2.6.3, that file suddenly doesn't work. I have a bt878 card, and the video4linux and video4linux2 module is loaded into my kernel. My question is, did the video device files change in 2.6? Which am I supposed to be using to watch TV with XawTV?

[Dolda2000]

I have no problems watching TV from my BT878 card with a 2.6.3 kernel. What kind of error/abnormal behavior do you get?

[MosX]

If I run XawTV with no command line options I get a blue screen. Before installing the new kernel, it ran fine. If I run

xawtv -c /dev/video0

(which is the default right?) it says:

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

Configuration options (~/.xawtv) haven't changed since I had kernel 2.4.22 running.

[Dolda2000]

Check so that the appropriate modules are loaded. You will at the least need to have the bttv module loaded, and it in turn should have loaded some other modules such as the tuner module, usually the msp3400 module and maybe some more.

A blue screen... I read bluescreen at first. =)

[MosX]

Hey thanks man. I just did a modprobe bttv and it worked right after. I appreciate your help.

[MosX]

Ok, now I thought I could figure out the sound all by myself...

I'm using ALSA of course. No "real" OSS support (besides the built in OSS compatibility which works well). I used:

-C /dev/dsp
-C /dev/adsp
-C /dev/sound

some others I don't remember and I left it alone too, and the channels are all mute. I made sure the mute setting from within XawTV isn't on and other operating system sounds work. Is there a different device file I'm supposed to be using?

EDIT: I can actually hear sound REAL quiet. I can't exactly just crank the sound though because everything else will be too loud. I decided to stick with /dev/adsp and mess with the alsamixer settings. I turned everything up and it's still too quiet to hear...

[Dolda2000]

There are usually two "volume knobs". There is partly the sound card mixer, but the TV card often has a volume setting of its own. Try the numpad +/- keys in xawtv and see if it makes a difference.

[MosX]

No, it has no difference. You just use the default device files right?

[Dolda2000]

Yeah, that's right. Can you post the dmesgs that the kernel gives right after your probe the bttv module?

[MosX]

This is gonna sound really stupid, but where are the dmesgs printed? In other words:

[root@localhost dwayne]# modprobe bttv
[root@localhost dwayne]#

is what happens. This looks pretty bad though...

[root@localhost dwayne]# modprobe btaudio
FATAL: Module btaudio not found.
[root@localhost dwayne]#