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Capture Card Setup

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:31 pm
by powertower
I have a 4 post capture card with the following info printed on it.

Conexant Fusion 878A
25878-13
0441Y1UP

No manufacturer is printed on its.

dmesg | grep -i bttv
[ 12.841299] bttv: driver version 0.9.18 loaded
[ 12.841302] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[ 12.841950] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[ 12.842370] bttv 0000:04:08.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 12.842381] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:04:08.0, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdaff000
[ 12.843309] bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
[ 12.843314] IRQ 16/bttv0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[ 12.843344] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f36000 [init]
[ 19.272028] bttv0: tuner type unset
[ 19.272262] bttv0: registered device video0
[ 19.272363] bttv0: registered device vbi0

When I try and setup a camera on /dev/video0 I get nothing. (red source)

Could someone help?

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:18 pm
by powertower
Forget it, It was a permission problem I found on Ubuntu's forum...