x2xtreme's Using your BT848 video capture card with Red Hat Linux
To do this is very easy. The first thing you need to do is make sure you have a 2.1 or 2.2. kernel..perferable a 2.2.x kernel. The only thing you need to modulaize video for linux and modulize the BT848 video for linux module. In case you use make config to config your kernel these two modules are called Config_video_dev and Config_video_BT848.
Now all you have to do is make your kernel and modules and reboot. If you need help compiling your kernel, look at Joey's kernel compile/upgrade guide. Next you need a video viewing program. You can get kwintv, or xawtv. Those are the best two I use. To start the card type:
/sbin/modprobe -a bttv
Then type dmesg and look at the last lines to make sure the card was found, and that you didn't get any errors or anything.
Installing xawtv
You can download the tarball from http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html. After you download it, untar it by doing the following:
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
Once you untar it go into the directory it extracted to and as root type:
./configure
When it's done doing it's thing just type:
make followed by: make install
That will install the binaries in your /bin and /sbin directories. That way you can just type xawtv to get xawtv running. That's all it is to it...when you get ready to watch tv or some just type /sbin/modprobe -a bttv as root then type xawtv and it should come straight up...
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