Connexant BT878A Chip Set-Up / ZM 1.24.2

[Dan.Tech]

Should be able to get 250 to 300 KB/s from me alone unless space and time prevent it. Just a suggestion: consider Fedora, it is very solid (Fedora 12 following the installation steps from the wiki, "the easy way", I posted it so cut and paste is possible with all entries included, none of this "usual way" stuff). Just responded to a Fedora 14 pm so the instructions are still good. Don't know what happened to Ubuntu but sure seems to be allot of issues... Just updated Fedora (not a ZM box) from F12 to F14 with no issues at all, finally a true rolling release; I'm hooked!

i've got it, now seeding both, its past midnight here, once i finish my work over the weekend i will try it.

[danensis]

Sorry, not trying to hijack this thread, but having similar issues. I now have all 8 channels working, but images just shows bottom few lines of the camera image at the top of the screen.

Happy to produce any traces etc, or allow remote access if you want to have a peek.

John

[bb99]

danesis - toggle the V4L_MULTI_BUFFER in options-> config. or increase CAPTURES_PER_FRAME to a value of 2 or 3 and see what happens.
Ignore the "doesn't change anything for 1 camera per chip" statement for now.

[danensis]

OK tried both those, and no better. So at the weekend I reinstalled Mandriva2007 Live CD and Zoneminder worked fine. I couldn't get Fedora to install at all on my PC. So now back to Ubuntu, and find I have to set cameras to NTSC and GREY to get any picture at all, where I got colour pictures with PAL and RGB24 under Mandriva.

[Dan.Tech]

it's completely a hardware conflict with my motherboard, i'm not too suprised this packard bell is nearly eight years old, i tried it on an old dell with a live cd and it seemed to pick up the card during startup where as the packard bell didn't.

[danensis]

Do you want me to continue on this thread or start a new one? I think this is an issue with 1.24 on Ubuntu, as the card works fine with other versions of OS.

I've taken out autoload as there was a message that it was obsolete.

Currently dmesg shows:
~$ dmesg | grep bttv
[ 6.298144] bttv: driver version 0.9.18 loaded
[ 6.298148] bttv: using 32 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[ 6.298915] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[ 6.298958] bttv 0000:03:08.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 6.298977] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:08.0, irq: 17, latency: 16, mmio: 0xfdeff000
[ 6.299005] bttv0: using: IVC-200 [card=102,insmod option]
[ 6.299068] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[ 7.100013] bttv0: tuner type=0
[ 7.146803] Modules linked in: msp3400 snd_hda_codec_realtek ir_lirc_codec lirc_dev snd_hda_intel ir_sony_decoder snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm ir_jvc_decoder bttv(+) ir_rc6_decoder snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi v4l2_common videodev v4l1_compat videobuf_dma_sg videobuf_core ir_rc5_decoder nouveau snd_seq_midi_event btcx_risc ir_nec_decoder ir_common ir_core tveeprom snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device ttm drm_kms_helper ppdev parport_pc shpchp led_class drm snd i2c_algo_bit intel_agp agpgart psmouse soundcore snd_page_alloc lp parport serio_raw skge floppy
[ 7.147228] [<f83e1546>] ? T.761+0x36/0x40 [bttv]
[ 7.147244] [<f83e7d62>] ? bttv_init_card2+0xb33/0xbba [bttv]
[ 7.147286] [<f83e817e>] ? init_bttv_i2c+0x1b2/0x248 [bttv]
[ 7.147302] [<f83e6440>] ? bttv_probe+0x573/0x843 [bttv]
[ 7.147452] [<f82a90d6>] ? bttv_init_module+0xd6/0xee [bttv]
[ 7.147476] [<f82a9000>] ? bttv_init_module+0x0/0xee [bttv]

[Dan.Tech]

stay here if you want, it will be helpful for when i set-up mine, when i get another one of these dells, but then you might get more help if you make a new thread, you choose (:

[danensis]

OK, I'll start a new thread under 1.24 as it looks like its the interaction between that and ZoneMMinder, but I'll keep an eye on this one as well, as I think the camera issue may be to do with the card.

[Dan.Tech]

OK, I'll start a new thread under 1.24 as it looks like its the interaction between that and ZoneMMinder, but I'll keep an eye on this one as well, as I think the camera issue may be to do with the card.

okay i wish you the best of luck.

[danensis]

I'm beginning to think this might be a resource issue. If I uninstall and then reinstall ZM I get a different set of cameras working each time. I have six of the eight ports on the card connected to cameras, and on three successive reloads of ZM the monitors that worked were 2,3,5,6 then 1,3 and 5 and finally 1,2 and 6, so no real pattern to it at all.

[Dan.Tech]

hiya again, it's me. i haven't forgotten about this thread, i've just about finished with most of my work meaning i have time to work on this system, it's taken far too long but hey, what can i do? okay so i put ZMLinuxOS on a disc and ran the live CD, it doesn't help that i'm a newbie to linux so i might sound completely stupid. I put the card in, opened ZM in firefox and set up monitors as usual, i couldn't find a text editor to edit the options.conf or make the bttv.conf supplied in the instructions, it looked more hopeful though, when i ran lspci it recognised the BT878 card 8 times (one for each channel the card has) but came up with video 8 times then audio 8 times when this card is video only I set my monitors to /dev/card0 because that's what it was listed as, there were no other video sources under /dev, i tried to take a print screen (through the menu somewhere) but failed completely nothing went into the clipboard or saved on the desktop, i couldn't get it to connect to the internet either so i just took pictures with a digital camera, lspci and dmesg (but came up a million times in dmesg saying reset, reinitialize_ both recognise the card yet kmplayer can't pull a stream off the card, it just buffers then says: mplayer not running, nothing showed a picture, i did have each input connected with a camera so i really don't know what's going on

hopefully you can help me on this, all will be appreciated, happy holidays and happy new year to all

[danensis]

I use vi for editing - but then I've used UNIX for many years. The basic commands are x to delete and i to insert (except at the end of the line where you have to use a). Then ESC :wq to write and exit.

What does dmesg | grep bttv give you now?

John

[bb99]

Take a look at this:http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16993 . The card listed can be a tough one.