Hi scantv is a console applicatione and in his dependencies "ldd scantv" I a have not seen libX..... needed, but it is compiled int the main xawtv makefile and so i don't know if the compiling process will fail before compiling scantv. I have a full distro in my environment. I used xawtv 3.94 for my job. Next week if you haven't solved yet i can do a try to help you in compiling scantv in your environment, and to write a simple script to generate a valid channels.conf regards Angelo