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Hi all, i've been battling with a Zoneminder install for a while now...

OS : Ubuntu Server 9.10
Zoneminder : 1.24.2
Capture Card : 80-CP2000300-3 (BT848)

I have installed zoneminder onto Ubnutu server and all seems fine, I assume my issues are down to the capture card I am using. By searching on the net at http://www.bttv-gallery.de/ I found the following info about my card....

Askey CPH03x "TV Capturer"
BT848A(Askey CPH03x/ Dynalink ) [card=48,insmod option]

I have created /etc/modprobe.d/bttv and put the following info in it.....

# i2c
alias char-major-89 i2c-devb
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
# bttv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
# My TV Card
options bttv card=48 tuner=0 radio=0 pll=1 adc_crush=0

Now when I boot and run dmesg | grep bttv.*card I get the following output....

[ 9.778407] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[ 9.781338] bttv0: using: Askey CPH03x/ Dynalink Magic TView [card=48,insmod option]

As far as I can see everything is correct, ubuntu is picking my card up correctly, but when I add a camera (Standard BNC output bullet cam) to zoneminder, the image is just black, messing around with the Color Pallette settings sometimes produces a scrambled image but thats it.

Anyone have any ideas as to what steps I should take next?

If you haven't set shared memory do that now.

Else check
/var/log/zm/
for more log info.