Noob Questions about setting up a Kodicom 4400R

smiffy · Post by **smiffy** » Sat May 13, 2006 9:54 am

I'm new to Linux, but not PC's.

I've built a ZM box from the ISO cd, and have installed a Kodicom 4400R card. This is deteded by the OS and by ZM

On the GUI desktop I have four icons labelled TVTime BT878 Video (*** Unknown Gender.

Within ZM I've added the four video devices - but I cant see any images on any of the 4 ports. In ZM if I select montage then I get two black screens and two blue screens - as I only have two cameras connected this looks like something has been detected - but is not configured correctly.

Where do I start the troubleshooting?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat May 13, 2006 10:27 am

which iso you using and if you search for 4400r you will find an excellent post by conner that details the whole process of the kodicom!

smiffy · Post by **smiffy** » Sat May 13, 2006 10:58 am

I used the ZMLiveCD_1.21.3 and have kernel version 2.6.7-2.tmb.6mdk

It seems that I need a newer kernel?? If so can I upgrade to this easily?

I'm doing a search through all the 4400R posts now so hopefully I'll find corners post.

Thanks

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat May 13, 2006 12:59 pm

you need kernel 2.6.12 minimum
Id either use Ross's new install cd or Coreys ctu zm linux.
I havnt used the new mandriva cd but coreys is based on 2.6.12

smiffy · Post by **smiffy** » Sat May 13, 2006 9:11 pm

I've found this info for Zmdv_2006 Mandriva ZoneMinder installer CD - is this what I need?

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... f5fedee00c

I'm downloading the Bit Torrent now.

Does this mean I need to completely reinstall?

Post by **cordel** » Sat May 13, 2006 11:15 pm

You will find links for most everything in the downloads section or in the LiveCD topic Ross posts what you need as annoucments.
You don't mention which iso you have loaded. There are several. All the ones put out by Ross are Mandrake/Mandriva based. The one I have out is based on FC3.
There will be a FC5 Based distro as well fairly soon.

Cheers,
Corey

smiffy · Post by **smiffy** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:21 am

OK I've downloaded the ZoneMinder FC3 Distro v1.21.3 BT CD and rebuilt the box on FC3

The kernel is now verion 2.6.12-1

I've run the command MODPROBE bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133 and added the monitors back into ZM

However I'm almost back to where i started as I now have a montage of four black monitors.

I'm not convinced that I have a new enough Kernel as this link

http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Kodicom_4400R

suggests that I need 2.6.12-6 and 2.6.13 is the baseline.

Am I still missing something? I know my 4400R card works as I've tested it in the same PC with a Windows XP HDD.

Any help would be much apprecited.

thanks

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:07 am

your right about the kernel. Im sorry i thought that ctu krernel was new enough, but it would appear not. Im not sure if you can update the kernel as i havnt tried.

smiffy · Post by **smiffy** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:23 pm

Any ideas when either CD will be released with a newer kernel?

Has anyone actually got the 4400R card to work within ZM?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:25 pm

yes i have got 4400r's working but with a 2.6.13 kernel

Post by **cordel** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:58 pm

Go to a console window and type:
yum install kernel

On CTU-zm Linux this will get you the newer kernel.

Cheers,
Corey

smiffy · Post by **smiffy** » Wed May 24, 2006 1:52 pm

I've run that and it did download and install some stuff, but I'm still on Kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3

If I rerun that command i get a "Nothing to do" message.

Have I missed something or done something wrong?

thanks

Post by **cordel** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:46 pm

You might have to enable the Fedora repo
yum --enablerepo updates-released install kernel

I forgot that I had disabled by default the Fedora repos to aviod people running into problems.

Cheers,
Corey

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:38 pm

Would anyone who has this card running well like to add an entry for it to the hardware section of the Wiki as it seems to be fairly common now. Just basic stuff like what goes into modprobe.conf and maybe a link to specs or something.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:56 pm