[mythtv] Re:Right edge of screen cut off

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Tue Feb 11 20:09:08 EST 2003


mythtv at thetechguide.com wrote:
> Well, still not sure what the actual problem is, but I think I found a fix. 
> Unfortunately I can't try it just yet as I decided to completely wipe the mythtv
> install and start fresh with a new CVS install.  Anyways, I was messing around
> with freevo to see if it was a problem with the pvr software or something else,
> and it seemed to have the same problem.  Then I ran xawtv from the command line,
> same problem!  Previously I had only been using xawtv from the desktop link.
> 
> Well some more digging, and it seems the xawtv desktop icon uses /dev/v4l/video0
> while just typing xawtv in the commandline defaults to /dev/video0.  I do feel
> kinda silly for not noticing this earlier, but then again why would it even make
> a difference?  Hopefully the new CVS version works too so I can try this
> out.

Rather than wiping out anything, simply:

cd /dev
ln -s v4l/video0 video

--  bjm




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