Monitors Not Showing

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:20 pm

I set up monitors. I went to update from 1.19.5 to the more recent 1.22.0 version. I did not realize there was a update script so I tried to uninstall, and remove all things connected to zm that i could see. Then i reinstalled using 1.22.0. All seems good to go. I can get video using tv time. Only problem with video at the moment is 2 out of my 4 channels work. Only 1 and 3 work. (based on 0 - 3 scale). Well besides this problem which i will work out as i look more into it, I have a problem getting these monitors working in ZM.

I got to the web admin and i set up the monitors as follows.

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Monitor1 	Monitor 	/dev/video0 (1)
Monitor2 	Monitor 	/dev/video0 (3)

When I open up the ZM for the monitor I get one of the 2 following. On monitor 1 i set a size from x & y. I open it up and there is a broken image. On monitor2 it shows up as a very small window, and i am guessing a broken image as well.

I am not sure what i need to check to solve this problem though, but I am open to try anything that is suggested.

Thanks for all the help so far, and hoping to get this excellent program up and running again.

sick347 · Post by **sick347** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:23 pm

be sure your video drivers are loaded!!!

I had to load mine manually, I am having problems loading them automatically (at boot).

-frank

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:25 pm

Well I know that the video is working because in TVTime i am able to get a video feed and see the video.

So unless this means there are other video drivers i am not seeing then i am not sure that is the problem.

sick347 · Post by **sick347** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:34 pm

have you tried any of the monitor presets?

I noticed that if one setting is wrong I got a broken image (I have BW cams and one of the presets I used had RGB and until I changed that one preset I got not video)

-frank

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:40 pm

Still nothing working with this. I tried setting the colors to different ones and still nothing.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:21 pm

can you post your monitor settings?

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:40 pm

Well maybe that is the problem. When i open a monitor, and click on settings. It shows all of them as blank.

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:41 pm

Also, if you have a single chip card you need to ensure that sizes and palettes etc are the same for all inputs.