[olug] Mandrake 9.2, ATI, and xawtv

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Sun Jan 25 16:43:51 UTC 2004


Is xawtv picking up the correct video device?
i.e. have you tried
xawtv -c /dev/video0

> I'm having a problem with xawtv since I've upgraded Mandrake to 9.2 from
> 9.1.
>
> Every time I start xawtv, I get the following:
>
> This is xawtv-3.90, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19-16mdk)
> Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  144 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
>   Serial number of failed request:  337
>   Current serial number in output stream:  337
> [krisguy at bugslin krisguy]$
>
> I'm using the cooker XFree86 RPMs with a Mach64 card.
>
> Googling isn't helping me, all I keep finding is missing /dev/video
> remarks on the web.
>
> Any ideas?
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