On my system with SuSe 7.3, a fresh setup, I do not get xawtv running in an orderly way. That was also the case with the version 7.2 but I hoped that due to the visible improvements between the two versions I would have it going without problems.. I have an btb 848 Hauppage (old) card. I can have xawtv running sort of. As far as I can find out the card is recognized, but I only get an image (without too much color though) if I turn the overlay of and use grabbing instead. That is not as it should be ;-(. According to the man pages/howto this should point into the direction of a defect setup with the v4l-conf. I v4l-conf gave me the following info: v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0 dga: version 2.0 mode: 1024x768, depth=16, bpp=16, bpl=2048, base=0x4018a000 /dev/video0 [v4l2]: ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: Invalid argument done I thought that this is the information expected and do not see where there could be a problem. Any ideas?