/dev/video: No such device

i think this has been discussed before, but unable to locate thread in archives. i can use xawtv fine but, kwintv complains /dev/video not found...... user belongs to group "video", have also tried making device owned by root, v4l-conf reports same error maybe related - unable to record from v4l device in bcast2000, no picture or tuner TIA -- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604