I have a question about the Vidwhacker screensaver. In the comment on the Settings tab for screensaver settings in Gnome, it says that vidwhacker "works really well if you just feed live broadcast TV into it." I'm a little confused on how to set this up. I have a TV card installed, and MythTV works great. My TV-in device is /dev/v4l/video0. When I specify this in the image directory text box, I get an error from xscreensaver when I ask to preview Vidwhacker, saying the directory doesn't exist. I go back to the text box and change the value to /dev/v4l and preview again. Now it tells me that there are no files in /dev/v4l. Here's an ls of /dev/v4l:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/v4l total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 64 Jun 1 13:07 radio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 224 Jun 1 13:07 vbi0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Jun 1 13:07 video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 24 Jun 1 13:07 video24 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 32 Jun 1 13:07 video32 Am I setting this up wrong? I just think it would be cool to have the currently selected TV channel as my screensaver. If this can't be done with Vidwhacker, can it be done with something else? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
