Newbie help required on install

Airwolf · Post by **Airwolf** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:24 pm

Hi Ross

Thanks for the tips

I'll try what you suggest but in the meantime i tried the download SE edition of Mandriva and selected the MBR of the drive i installed it to and i can boot either windows or linux!

I'll keep you posted

Airwolf · Post by **Airwolf** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:10 pm

OK so i ran the LiveCD and got ZM capturing images form the camera etc.

Ran the installer, selected the MBR of the drive and hey presto, booted into mandriva desktop.

I am now back to the same point as before.

"Connection refused....error trying to contact localhost" error

almost like newtorking is not set correctly?

thanks

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:34 am

Get yourself a konsole prompt and enter the command "sudo service httpd status" or just do "sudo service httpd restart". See if that solves the problem.

Also be aware that you may get a desktop running and fire up the browser while the webserver and ZM are still starting up in the background, so give it a moment or two and try again. If you are fast on the trigger try this first before the above.

The network will most likely need to be reconfigured after installation, though this should have no effect on using ZM from the host machine.

Sounds like you're 99% there so keep us posted and we''l get this resolved.

Ross

Airwolf · Post by **Airwolf** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:42 am

OK so i ran the LiveCD version and all is OK. I can surf the web, look at drives, capture images from the camera etc.

After a successfull installation process, i reboot and get all sorts of errors to do with USB ports, and that another process has control of 127.0.0.1

Needless to say i cannot get anythng to work.

What can be so differenent between the LiveCD running ZM and the install method?

I ran "sudo service httpd status" and it was up and running

I also ran "sudo service httpd restart" and it stopped and restarted httpd2

Currently reinstalling from the LiveCD again and if this fails then i'll try another distribution Fedora Core4? and try the long winded method of getting ZM up.

Thanks for all the advice so far

Airwolf · Post by **Airwolf** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:54 am

Cordel

Don't suppose you have a LiveCD based on FC3 that i could download?

Giving up on trying to get zm installed the long and hard way

many thanks

TheFluffyOne · Post by **TheFluffyOne** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:12 pm

Airwolf wrote:if this fails then i'll try another distribution Fedora Core4? and try the long winded method of getting ZM up.

I set ZM up on a Fedora Core 4 box just last night, so if you want any help going down this route let me know.

Airwolf · Post by **Airwolf** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:27 pm

Thanks for the offer

To be honest i am struggling with FC3 and geting all the bits and pieces in place.

If you have a step by step guide then I'll give it a go

I am not use to Linux, programming, or any development work so this is very difficult

Post by **cordel** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:46 pm

I don't have a Live CD for FC3 but I have a single CD installer that installs the basic requirements to run ZM (no compilers so you can not build from source, but these can be installed via YUM and I could walk you through how to do that if you so desire), installs ZM, and FFMPEG.
There is also availible X and Gnome Desktop and also Webmin.
I can mail a copy as soon as testing is complete on 1.21.3 and I move it to the ISO.
Let me know.
Regards,
Cordel

Airwolf · Post by **Airwolf** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:45 pm

hi everyone, well after several installs of FC3 and no luck getting ZM to install via YUM, i took the brave step to completely get rid of my XP install and go all the way with Linux.

So i now have a two 15Gbytes disks with a successfull install, well at least ZM runs, from the LiveCD.

Couple of things.
1. when i start the browser i get a cycle of the system freezing every few seconds, for a few seconds. Prior to starting the browser all appears OK. The best way that this is visable is that the mouse/ keyboard 'stall' during this time. Makes getting around very fustrating.

2. I cannot see any image from the camera, it's just black. I did previously and i will try a boot and run from the liveCD later. I have tried several combinations of device/ channel number. I am using a Pinnacle Stereo TV capture card with a phillips chip set.

Could someone recommend some default brightness/ contrast/hue settings as i cannot get Xawtv to install

Got any ideas?

many thanks

Post by **cordel** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:21 pm

Try the range of 27000 to 33000.
I'm curious as to what was not working in the yum installed version? This would be the first I have heard any issues. Please PM me with any thing that is not working with the YUM server or the packages so I can resolve them and get you going as well.
Regards,
Cordel