help with hardware

namiiii · Post by **namiiii** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:47 pm

I have the following hardware

http://www.swann.com.au/s/products/view/?product=379
http://www.swann.com.au/s/products/view/?product=319

I have zoneminder installed but don't know how to get the above hardware to work with it...

help

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:19 pm

what disto you using, if its one of the official supported ones then edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add

options bttv card=77

to it

save and reboot

namiiii · Post by **namiiii** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:44 pm

i have ubuntu 7.04

i tried setting it up but it still does not work

here is a screen shot

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5061 ... hotqm8.png

i dont know what to enter in the 5 settings tabs...

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:12 pm

in the second tab you need

/dev/video0 in device path
0 in channel
pal/ntsc in format
rgb24 in pallete
360 in width
240 in height

namiiii · Post by **namiiii** » Tue May 22, 2007 6:45 pm

Thanks for the reply.

I tried what you said and it didn't seem to make any difference.

I don't seem to have a video0 in my dev folder.

Here is a screenshot of the dev folder and the broken image where the camera image should be.

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/5762/screenshotzm6.png

Post by **cordel** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:23 pm

What does
dmesg |grep bt
show you???

namiiii · Post by **namiiii** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:12 pm

That returns nothing.

Post by **cordel** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:27 pm

Then the linux kernel does not see your card.

namiiii · Post by **namiiii** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:35 pm

Is there no way to get the linux kernal to see my card?

Post by **cordel** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:40 pm

You could try to manualy insmod the bttv drivers. Might be helpfull if we knew more about your setup though.
What distro/release?
What mainboard are you using?
Does it show the capture card on the bios post?

namiiii · Post by **namiiii** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:06 pm

I'm using ubuntu 7.04
I don't know the answer to the rest of the question, where do I get that info from?

It's an old celeron board

Post by **cordel** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:14 pm

The main board name and model should show up while the machine is posting(boot from bios) and same with the capture card, you should see it in a list of devices showing port and irq used.

namiiii · Post by **namiiii** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:18 pm

The capture card I have can be seen in the very first post of this thread. I will restart my computer to get the board into.

Thanks

edit ---
the motherboard seems to be a M6VCF