I downloaded and installed the mandrake distro from Ross on a fresh Hard drive. I installed a Grandtec 9 port video card linked from this site and shown as supported (GXG-9000).
I hooked up 8 monochrome cameras.
(link to instruction manual here)
http://64.207.2.92/USCD/man_data/JVC/Ma ... Manual.pdf
I configured three cams as camera 1,2,3 on device 0
When in go to montage view, I get a broken link icon. If i change the mode from still, to stream, I get black images, as though there is video, but I don'
t get any image.
There appears to be jpgs being written to home/user/events/camera 1,2,3 /001-capture.jpg
When I go to a remote computer and bring up zoneminder in a browser, it appears to be refreshing properly. But still no image.
When I run smu -d /dev/video0 -v -q this is the info I get.
Video Capabilities
Name: BT878 video (GrandTec Multi Cap
Type: 171
Can capture
Can tune
Overlay onto frame buffer
Can clip
Scalable
Video Channels: 4
Audio Channels: 0
Maximum Width: 768
Maximum Height: 480
Minimum Width: 48
Minimum Height: 32
Window Attributes
X Offset: 0
Y Offset: 0
Width: 320
Height: 200
Picture Attributes
Palette: 1 - Linear greyscale
Colour Depth: 8
Brightness: 32768
Hue: 32768
Colour :32768
Contrast: 32768
Whiteness: 0
Channel 0 Attributes
Name: Composite0
Channel: 0
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 1 Attributes
Name: Composite1
Channel: 1
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 2 Attributes
Name: Composite2
Channel: 2
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 3 Attributes
Name: Composite3
Channel: 3
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Any thoughts
Jim
No images on grandtek GXG-9000 9 port card
Try viewing your cameras with TVTime ot xawtv. If you can see them that way its just a matter of using the right settings in defining the ZM monitor source.
I don't have any experience with that card, but I would try these values first.
Device : 0
Channel : 0
Format : 1 (NTSC)
Palette : Grey
Width : 320
Height : 240
Also open a terminal (konsole) and enter "sys", (Alias for sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog) and you should see some informative messages / errors that you could post here if this doesn't get you going.
Best regards,
Ross
I don't have any experience with that card, but I would try these values first.
Device : 0
Channel : 0
Format : 1 (NTSC)
Palette : Grey
Width : 320
Height : 240
Also open a terminal (konsole) and enter "sys", (Alias for sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog) and you should see some informative messages / errors that you could post here if this doesn't get you going.
Best regards,
Ross
tried on winxp and it worked
I transfered a hard drive with win xp to the computer that i had installed the mandrake zoneminder distro to. The computers are indentical. Dell 733 mhz sytems.
I installed the dvr software that came with the grand tec card, and the cameras came up right away.
So at least I know there is no problem with the card.
Jim
I installed the dvr software that came with the grand tec card, and the cameras came up right away.
So at least I know there is no problem with the card.
Jim