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Hold on there... ! you can CAPTURE VIDEO with a 9.2 box using an ATI AIW card? WHICH CARD??? I have an AIW Pro, PCI with 4mb ram. I can get xawtv to work, so I can SEE video... but I've never been able to CAPTURE it. If you can do this, PLEASE tell me how... If you can help me get this set up so it captures video footage IN LINUX, I swear I will send you my wife's homemade fudge! (No, this is NOT a joke... I've already shipped a package to England as a thank for for a guy compiling some software for me...) And by the way, it's amazingly good fudge, too. Thanks! G.B.Y.L.B.T., PastorEd ------------------------------------- (God Bless Your Linux Box Today)

VECTOR Linux (http://www.vectorlinux.com) 1) It's SIMPLE to set up 2) it's FAST 3) it's Slackware, so there is a lot of documentation for it available 4) it's FAST 5) it has a great community - very friendly, very helpful 6) it's FAST 7) designed to run well on older hardware so I don't *NEED* to have the fastest and best 8) it's FAST and hmm.... ...did I mention that it's FAST?

Let me see here... ...I installed Vector Linux on my wife's TP 600, and it *was* a tad tricky to get the sound working. Let me grab hers, and see what it says... Okay. From the end of her /etc/modules.conf file... <snip> alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0-x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=0 mpu_io=0x388 <snip> Okay... so what I actually DID to configure the sound was install and run sndconfig (the old-school Red Hat tool). By trial and error, I selected the SB driver that had AWE64 support. Why? Because it WORKED. I know it's not exactly the correct driver that IBM had in mind... but hey, I have great sound. No problem. Sorry, but I can't help you on the modem. Haven't bothered to set that one up yet.

Just a friendly reminder: ALL PEOPLE MATTER!

Well, I did an UPGRADE from 9.1 to 9.2... ...and to be blunt, I didn't notice any problems at all. In fact, it was just generally faster, and prettier all the way around. I *did* notice, however, that the shiny new boot screen that people were talking about didn't show up for me. My LILO screen was updated, but when it came to actually booting INTO Linux, it either used the old screens, or simply went all console. No big deal - I just happened to notice it. At any rate, I was VERY pleased with my UPGRADE path. I decided, however, that if I was really going to put 9.2 through its paces, I had better do an INSTALL, instead of just an upgrade. WOW, what a DIFFERENCE! Whereas before, I'd tried to use lightweight window managers because I thought that KDE was just too bloated to feel "snappy", I logged into KDE after the INSTALL - and boom, baby! MUCH faster. I then applied the Texstar updated KDE 3.1.4 rpms, and it was even FASTER. I can actually USE KDE without noticing it. Just because I'm so used to running a light WM, I also configured IceWM... and that's pretty darn snappy, too. My computer is ALMOST at the "perfect" stage... The programs launch ALMOST immediately after clicking on them. Anyway, that's my experience in doing the UPGRADE and the INSTALL as well.

here's my 9.2 label design... Just in case anyone's interested... just GIMPIFY it, and add text under the "disk" line on the left depending on which disk you're printing out. ___________ GBYLBT, PastorEd

Here's the icon that I use. I'm not sure WHERE it's from, originally... If you're interested, I've got three sizes on that page - firebird-16.png, firebird-32.png, and the one shown above. If you can find out where they come from (ask Texstar), good luck! ________________ GBYLBT, PastorEd

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Whoo Hoo! Of course, I cheated. I completely reinstalled Mandrake 9.1, and so I was able to start with a fresh installation. I think my PROBLEM was that I had tried to add some extra module to get my video capture to work... but when I tried the recompile with a "pure" source, it worked like a charm. I am now posting from a newly "Duronized" kernel. MUCH faster. :D Now if I can just figure out how to "duronize" my other apps... :D Thanks for your help guys!

Hello, everyone. Here's my situation: I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a Walmart $199 special. (Microtel 1.1Gz Duron processor, 20G hd, onboard video) I have installed two after-market items: 1) a Maxtor 160G hd, and 2) my ATI All-in-Wonder Pro PCI 4mb video card which captures video just fine in Windoze. I have found a lot of software that will allow me to process captured video, and I can even VIEW the TV input using avview or xawtv. However, I CANNOT, for the life of me, figure out HOW to capture video in Linux. It's driving me crazy, and I really, REALLY do not want to have to dual boot M$ just for ONE thing. It would cause far more problems than it's worth, and I don't want to have to dedicate an entire partition of my HD to do ONE task. Can anyone on here PLEASE show me how to configure Linux to capture video? I've read everything I can find on the subject, but it assumes a level of Linux competency that I have not yet attained. My goal: to be able to shoot video with my analog camera, do capture of analog signal and convert to digital format (either AVI or MPEG, I don't care which), import said DV into video editing program, and cut raw footage into a movie. I'm pretty sure that Cinelerra will allow me to replace a demo version of Adobe Premiere, so I'm not too concerned about the editing... it's the CAPTURE that eludes me. Well? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. And I wouldn't even mind "RTFM" if I could just have someone point me to the RIGHT manual! :D Thanks so much, everyone!

I tried make dep clean bzImage && make -j5 modules && make modules_install and I still got the exact same errors. Next idea?

Thanks again for all your help, guys. By the way, I'm following the tutorial at http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4595 and I'm using this page for some pointers http://www.reades.com/radeon.html Anyway, when I make dep bzImage I see this: So, what does that MEAN? I'm way lost here...

Hello, everyone. Thanks for reading this post. I'm trying to recompile my kernel, as per the tutorial mentioned in the FAQ. However, I get to a certain point, and this is the error message I get: (it's for a videodev module - I'm trying to enable video capturing in Linux) Help! I REALLY don't want to go back to Windoze just to capture video!! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

in labels for PAST versions of Mandrake in this same style? I would think that Dolphin would be a piece of cake to design. I'm not so sure about "Vitamin", though. :D Seriously, anyone want 9.0 labels?

that DragonMage made about the color of the bamboo. The bamboo art I used was a traditional Japanese watercolor ink piece. But since not everyone is into that, here's the same graphic with GREEN leaves. Better?