Is the Geovision 800(S) a "Windows only" card ? - SOLVED

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I am very sorry to bother again this community with silly questions... but has been three days of struggle here, with zero results...

Arch Linux, full updated. ZM 1.25.0. Kernel 3.1.5-1. Geovision 800(S) card.

It IS working with Windows XP and the Geovisoin original software.

The devices:

# ls -la /dev/video*

crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 Dec 21 14:47 /dev/video0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 2 Dec 21 14:31 /dev/video1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 4 Dec 21 11:57 /dev/video2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 6 Dec 21 11:57 /dev/video3

A V4l test:

# v4l2-dbg -d /dev/video0 -D

Driver info:
Driver name : bttv
Card type : BT878 video (Geovision GV-800(S
Bus info : PCI:0000:02:00.0
Driver version: 3.1.5
Capabilities : 0x05000015
Video Capture
Video Overlay
VBI Capture
Read/Write
Streaming

# lspci -k

02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Subsystem: Device 800a:763d
Kernel driver in use: bttv
Kernel modules: bttv
02:00.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
...
...


At /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf i am using this context:

options bttv card=157,157,157,157 tuner=4,4,4,4
options bttv card=158,158,158,158 tuner=4,4,4,4


Even xawtv only produces a blue screen with any of the three "Composites" !!

This is the damm card:
http://www.cristhom.com.br/geov.jpg

This could be an indication of the problem, but i do not know how to interpret :

# /srv/http/bin/zmu -d /dev/video2 -V2 -q

error0

Is there support for version 1 of the V4l at this ZM 1.25 ?

Does anyone knows if this kind of card must be first "activated" somehow before the usage ??

The solution is to follow my own post at:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 625#p55625

Pathetic !!