Kernel 2.6 video capture success

[Joe]

Alan Cox wrote:

>>This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.0-0.test3.1.31)
>>can't open /dev/video0: No such device
>>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
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>It should be working if its a Brootktree card - see what
>"modprobe bttv" and "dmesg" show
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Ah, I let myself be tripped up by a newbie gotcha - after I manually 
modprobed bttv and trident (sound) everything works as advertised. I 
guess the only nit here is the failure to do 2.4 style module 
autoloading, but heck, this isn't bad.

Thanks for the pointer!

Joe