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Hi

Just purchased a kodicom 4400R card and installed it in a box with a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 and am intending using it with ZoneMinder.
I have connected a camera to cam0 on the card
I have run "modprobe bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133" and then run "xawtv" to check that the hardware is functioning but I get an error:
vid-open-auto:failed to open a capture device
no video grabber device available

presumably I should be able to see video0 etc in /dev? I cant..

Is it likely that the card is dead or have I missed out a step (I believe the driver is in the kernel and the modprobe command should have loaded it)

Be grateful for any assistance

Try creating a file called /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf containing reboot and see if you have any /dev/video* files.
If not type dmesg | grep bttv to find any errors

Thanks for the help.

I have done as you suggested.

After reboot there are no /dev/videoX files

dmesg | grep bttv produces no output!!

Have looked through dmesg | more and cant see anything glaringly wrong

Any more ideas gratefully received

Solved.
Thanks for your help.
I saw bttv was loaded using lsmod, couldn't see any errors in any logs.
I unloaded bttv with rmmod and reloaded it (with -v) to see if there were any errors. None reported
Ran xawtv again and it worked.