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Sep 12 15:46:43 ubuntu zmwatch[1471]: INF [Watchdog starting] Sep 12 15:46:43 ubuntu zmwatch[1471]: INF [Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds] Sep 12 15:49:09 ubuntu zms[1660]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>] Sep 12 15:49:10 ubuntu zms[1660]: ERR [Terminating, last frame sent time 1315838949 ...

Awesome, it works now! thanks (well the camera is recognised, orange font)
But when i try to stream from it all I see is a black screen. and the words State:idle 0 fps

root@ubuntu:~# nano /etc/sysctl.conf root@ubuntu:~# sysctl -p kernel.shmmax = 536870912 root@ubuntu:~# ipcs -l ------ Shared Memory Limits -------- max number of segments = 4096 max seg size (kbytes) = 524288 max total shared memory (kbytes) = 8388608 min seg size (bytes) = 1 ------ Semaphore Limits ...

Ok, quite a few zoneminder related messages in my syslog (rebooted at 21:43) , not sure if it means anything, dumping none the less [size=85]Sep 11 21:45:17 ubuntu zmdc[1323]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 11/09/11 21:45:17, pid = 1445] Sep 11 21:45:17 ubuntu zmdc[1445]: INF ['zmc -d /dev ...

also. This message: ERR [Can't shmget, probably not enough shared memory space free: Invalid argument] in the syslog appears to be related to the shared memory issue. Anyways I followed the instructions above (your previous post) root@ubuntu:~# echo kernel.shmmax = 536870912> /etc/sysctl.d/60-kernel ...

Oh ok, will take a look! Will update very soon.

/etc/sysctl.conf seems to be all commented out. I'll paste it anyway (as im rather new to linux)

pastebin(dot)com/ vELtTQPF

I was wondering if you could help me with that actually Device path: /dev/video0 Method V4L2 (cant get it to work on V4L1 either) Channel 0 Format: Pal Palette:YUYV, did also try jpeg Width:864, Height:480 (also tried 640 x480) The camera seems to work ok on xawtv and cheese on both usb 1.1 and the ...

Hi there folks, I am wondering if you can help me. I did try following the instructions on the troubleshooting page but I seem to be at a dead end. I have managed to set up zoneminder on xubuntu 11.04 and installed zoneminder version v1.24.2 from launchpad. I am not quite sure how to set up my ...