On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:59:08 -0700, Ioan Podoleanu wrote: > You're right, the combination nvidia-1.0-6106 with xawtv is a killer. For > xawtv, if you use "-remote" which disables overlay mode, it should work. I > also use -noxv which reduces the procesor use even further. It's not > perfect, but it works for me. My line now is: xawtv -c /dev/video0 -remote > -noxv . Thanks for the tip. Adding -remote -noxv does indeed provide an acceptable workaround. I hope I can eventually get overlay mode back though.