Second Card

Hogface · Post by **Hogface** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:42 pm

I added a second card to my Zoneminder server.
Both cards are the 4400r equivlants.
The first card works great.

I added the second card and after boot got the addition /dev/video[4-7] devices.
I can't see to find the signals...

Do I need to make a second duplicate entry in modprobe.conf?
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85

Or is there something to designate the second card I'm missing

Server IBM 342 Server
Zoneminder 1.22
FC4
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jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:06 am

yes you will need additional modprobe info as that tells bttv how to talk to your particular chip, but as you know the second (detected) chip needs to be differnet per card. Im not sure in what order it will detect the chips and you might need to mover your master numbers around till you get it working

Hogface · Post by **Hogface** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:21 pm

I added the second entry but it did not make a differenece.
This there a way to destingish the second card..otherwards should the line be different from my original modprobe line?
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jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:26 pm

if you have
options bttv card = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

and 8 single chip cards you would expect the 1st card to be in the first socket 2 in the 2nd etc. This isnt the case usually and will depend on what order they are connected and given an address

if bttv driver sees them as 1,4,2,6,3 etc it will through out your card config.
I had this on another system when fitting 2 different cards, and i just kept moving the entries till i got them all working

Hogface · Post by **Hogface** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:47 pm

Ok...i am really confused now...and I really apprecate the help....below is modprobe.conf:
lias eth0 e100
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ips
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85 tuner=-1
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85 tuner=-1

(The 0x85 is simply the hex instead of decimal). Worked perfectly for the first card)

I also tried:
alias eth0 e100
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ips
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85,0x85,0x85,0x85,0x85 tuner=-1

To represent all the chips (2 cards each with 4 chips for a total of 8 chips).

What am I missing?
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jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:33 pm

I also tried:
alias eth0 e100
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ips
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85,0x85,0x85,0x85,0x85 tuner=-1

this is the right format but you will need to move the numbers around as i doubt all 8 will be communicated with in this logical order