
I'm pulling my hair out.
I'm running ZM 1.24 installed via yum on FC11, followed these instructions:
http://linuxsoftwareblog.com/blog/?p=208
I have a Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture card that i can't get working.
I purchased the card on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0344094185
I chose it as I am new to zoneminder and it seemed as a cheap 'will do' card as mentioned in the wiki here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Pico2000
I can get it working in xawtv (i mean i get a picture)
(i don't understand how it runs on composite3 when it's loaded as video0)

Here is my xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586)
looking for available devices
/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video (GrandTec Multi Cap
flags: overlay capture
/dev/video1: OK [ -device /dev/video1 ]
type : v4l2
name : USB Camera (046d:08da)
flags: capture
Here is my lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 740 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
Here is my dmesg:
bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50775 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
bttv 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:09.0, irq: 11, latency: 64, mmio: 0xcfcfe000
bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
IRQ 11/bttv0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f360ff [init]
bttv0: tuner absent
bttv0: the autoload option is obsolete.
bttv0: use option msp3400, tda7432 or tvaudio to
bttv0: override which audio module should be used.
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
I added this in the modprobe.conf as other posts on the board suggested:
options bttv card=77 tuner=4 radio=0 triton1=0 vsfx=0 autoload=0 pll=1
Running modprobe bttv card=77 gives me this error:
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
Running zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v gives:
Video Capabilities
Name: BT878 video (GrandTec Multi Cap
Type: 45
Can capture
Does teletext
Overlay onto frame buffer
Can clip
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: 240
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: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 1 Attributes
Name: Composite1
Channel: 1
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 2 Attributes
Name: Composite2
Channel: 2
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 3 Attributes
Name: Composite3
Channel: 3
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
ZM screenshot:

I don't know what else to do.
I'm sure lots of you have this card, please help.
Thanks in advance,
Kocur