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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m attempting to install a Hauppauge WINTV RADIO pci
card (BT878 chipset) on my RedHat Enterprise Linux WS version 3. The driver
for the card is the bttv driver. From my research about the driver it is
suppose to be built into the Linux kernel. I’m running Kernel
2.4.21-20EL-i686. RedHat’s hardware browser shows the card as a video
capture card and defines the driver as bttv. However the card is not “mapped”
to a device. I tried running </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>% xawtv –noxv</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And it returned</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Can’t open /dev/video0</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I don’t really now how to troubleshoot this as I’m
still a novice Linux user.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I looked under /lib/modules/<Kernel
version>/Kernel/drivers and I didn’t see the bttv module. When I try
to modprobe for bttv it returns an error saying it can’t locate the
module.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>However, when I look under /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/drivers/media/video
I do see the bttv module source.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Do I need to rebuild the Kernel? I don’t know how to
tell if the bttv driver is already there and I don’t know how to rebuild
the kernel either. I apologize if this is the wrong mailing list to be asking
this type of question but if it is could you direct me to where I can get help?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks, </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Patrick</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Patrick Johnson</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Integrated Media Systems</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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10.0pt'>cell: 714-225-0666</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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