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Hi! I'm neebie to zoneminder so please bear with me. I'm using CentOS 5 and Zoneminder 1.24.2

I have installed zoneminder. I can access the console through x.x.x.x/zm. There is no access login so I cannot determine if I'm admin user or not. My question is:

1. How can I view the camera? Most tutorial only said just visit x.x.x.x/zm but all I can see is the console interface. Is there a page wherein I can only view cameras

2. I'm using PICO card, how could I verify if my card is working?

Did you add any camera (Add New Monitor)?

Yes. After I add a monitor. No camera. If it suppose to show up immediately, then why there's no camera appear? Here is some of the snippet on my dmesg:

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0832000, 00:80:ad:74:79:f9, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0104 -> 0106)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:10.0, irq: 9, latency: 132, mmio: 0xf4001000
bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
bttv0: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty)
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f36fff [init]
i2c-algo-bit.o: (0) scl=0, sda=0
i2c-algo-bit.o: bt878 #0 [sw] seems to be busy.
bttv0: using tuner=4
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
voodoo3_smbus 0000:01:00.0: Using Banshee/Voodoo3 I2C device at e0948000
i2c-algo-bit.o: (0) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (1) scl=1, sda=0
i2c-algo-bit.o: (2) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (3) scl=0, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (4) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: I2C Voodoo3/Banshee adapter passed test.
i2c-algo-bit.o: (0) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (1) scl=1, sda=0
i2c-algo-bit.o: (2) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (3) scl=0, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (4) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: DDC Voodoo3/Banshee adapter passed test.
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input0
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]

My suspect is the pico card. When I check my syslog, I found something:

Jul 3 07:55:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2052]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Jul 3 07:55:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2052]: INF [Starting Capture]
Jul 3 07:55:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2052]: ERR [Capture failure for frame 0: Invalid argument]
Jul 3 07:55:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2052]: ERR [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
Jul 3 07:55:33 CAMERA zmdc[2001]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmdc[2001]: INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmdc[2001]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video' starting at 09/07/03 07:56:13, pid = 2055]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmdc[2055]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video' started at 09/07/03 07:56:13]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2055]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2055]: INF [Starting Capture]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2055]: ERR [Capture failure for frame 0: Invalid argument]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2055]: ERR [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
Jul 3 07:56:13 CAMERA zmdc[2001]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmdc[2001]: INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmdc[2001]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video' starting at 09/07/03 07:57:33, pid = 2065]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmdc[2065]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video' started at 09/07/03 07:57:33]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2065]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2065]: INF [Starting Capture]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2065]: ERR [Capture failure for frame 0: Invalid argument]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmc_dvideo[2065]: ERR [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
Jul 3 07:57:33 CAMERA zmdc[2001]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video' exited abnormally, exit status 255]

I'm using CentOS 5 and followed the procedure here http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... figuration.

Anyone can suggest what to do next?

TIA

First what capture card do you have?
Is it really a type 77 card?
Where is the vodoo3 stuff coming from?
Can you view it in xawtv?
Can you do a screen grab (jpeg snapshot) in xawtv?

I think you might have the incorrect card configured potentially. If the card is not configured right, it will not work no matter what settings you put in ZM.

hi packets, i seem to have the same capture card and the same errors.
did you find a solution?