Kodicom 4400rr 16port CCTV PCI card Howto
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:14 pm
Hi Everyone 
I've installed a Kodicom 4400r clone PCI card with 16port CCTV inputs and 4x BT878a chips on the board into my PC - however it appears that the BTTV driver is not recognising the card and I think I need to place some text in the "modprobe.conf" file to get the BTTV driver to recognise the card correctly.
Here's a link to a picture of the card: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Kodicom_4400R
The PC is running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and ZoneMinder, ZoneMinder works as I can view the webpage on the local machine and start and stop ZoneMinder however all I see in the ZoneMinder video screens is blue screen where the video should be showing?
After reading the Ubuntu and ZoneMinder forums I'm pretty sure the card is not being recognised by the BTTV driver when it loads, I'me a newbie to Linux but have learn't that running a few commands gives me some information as follows:
When I run "dmesg" from a Terminal I get the following output, it's a bit long and so I've choped a bit off from the start of the output that's not relevant:
...and when I run "xawtv - hwscan" from a Terminal I get the following output:
...from reading the ZoneMinder forums, and the output above, it appears that the CCTV card I have is not being recognised and some users are able to edit their "modprobe.conf" files to enter "option bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133" which will make the BBTV driver recognise the card as a kodicom card type, one master and three slave kodicom BT878a chips.
I've also tried running "modprobe bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133" from a Terminal but when running "dmesg" immediately after this it appears nothing has changed as the card is still unrecognised.
I've placed "option bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133" into the "/etc/modules" file but after rebooting and running "dmesg" from a Terminal I got the same result as above and so I assume it's not recognised the card - I think i must have edited the wrong file and so if anyone know could help I'd really appreciate it as the only option I have at the moment is to re-install Windows and use the supplied CCTV software --- however I can't stand windows and have wanted to get away from it for ages
Cheers, JamesX...
I've installed a Kodicom 4400r clone PCI card with 16port CCTV inputs and 4x BT878a chips on the board into my PC - however it appears that the BTTV driver is not recognising the card and I think I need to place some text in the "modprobe.conf" file to get the BTTV driver to recognise the card correctly.
Here's a link to a picture of the card: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Kodicom_4400R
The PC is running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and ZoneMinder, ZoneMinder works as I can view the webpage on the local machine and start and stop ZoneMinder however all I see in the ZoneMinder video screens is blue screen where the video should be showing?
After reading the Ubuntu and ZoneMinder forums I'm pretty sure the card is not being recognised by the BTTV driver when it loads, I'me a newbie to Linux but have learn't that running a few commands gives me some information as follows:
When I run "dmesg" from a Terminal I get the following output, it's a bit long and so I've choped a bit off from the start of the output that's not relevant:
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[17179589.584000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179589.592000] agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
[17179589.596000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000
[17179589.904000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179589.928000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179589.940000] i2c_adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c00
[17179589.940000] i2c_adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x2000
[17179590.048000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[17179590.092000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
[17179590.100000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: f7d7fda2 Type 07 Len 0
[17179590.100000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 22
[17179590.100000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> Link [APCJ] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 185
[17179590.100000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
[17179590.236000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[17179590.252000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[17179590.376000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[17179590.376000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[17179590.420000] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54529 usecs
[17179590.420000] intel8x0: clocking to 47445
[17179590.508000] logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 85
[17179590.540000] IT8212: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:01:0c.0
[17179590.540000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: dfa45ce2 Type 07 Len 0
[17179590.544000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
[17179590.544000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0c.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 217
[17179590.544000] IT8212: chipset revision 16
[17179590.544000] it821x: controller in smart mode.
[17179590.544000] IT8212: 100% native mode on irq 217
[17179590.544000] ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
[17179590.544000] ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
[17179590.544000] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[17179590.648000] input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
[17179590.672000] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
[17179590.672000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, high) -> IRQ 209
[17179590.672000] eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
[17179590.672000] eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8aba000, 00:0d:61:1b:89:e9, IRQ 209
[17179591.056000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[17179591.112000] Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[17179591.124000] Probing IDE interface ide3...
[17179591.156000] bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
[17179591.156000] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[17179591.260000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[17179591.696000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: dfa456e2 Type 07 Len 0
[17179591.696000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] enabled at IRQ 19
[17179591.696000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 225
[17179591.696000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:06:38 PDT 2006
[17179591.700000] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[17179591.700000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 177
[17179591.700000] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:0c.0, irq: 177, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdc000000
[17179591.700000] bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
[17179591.700000] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[17179591.704000] tveeprom 2-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
[17179591.704000] bttv0: using tuner=-1
[17179591.704000] bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
[17179591.704000] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
[17179591.708000] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
[17179591.708000] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
[17179591.712000] bttv0: registered device video0
[17179591.712000] bttv0: registered device vbi0
[17179591.712000] bttv: Bt8xx card found (1).
[17179591.712000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0d.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 225
[17179591.712000] bttv1: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:0d.0, irq: 225, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdc002000
[17179591.712000] bttv1: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
[17179591.712000] bttv1: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00feffff [init]
[17179592.964000] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0005
[17179592.964000] usbcore: registered new driver usblp
[17179592.964000] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
[17179604.512000] tveeprom 3-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
[17179604.512000] bttv1: using tuner=-1
[17179604.512000] bttv1: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
[17179610.912000] bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
[17179617.312000] bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
[17179623.712000] bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
[17179630.112000] bttv1: registered device video1
[17179630.112000] bttv1: registered device vbi1
[17179630.128000] bttv: Bt8xx card found (2).
[17179630.128000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0e.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, high) -> IRQ 209
[17179630.128000] bttv2: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:0e.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdc004000
[17179630.128000] bttv2: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
[17179630.128000] bttv2: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00feffff [init]
[17179630.764000] r8169: eth0: link up
[17179631.796000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179633.556000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179633.556000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179633.556000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179642.928000] tveeprom 4-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
[17179642.928000] bttv2: using tuner=-1
[17179642.928000] bttv2: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... <7>eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[17179649.328000] not found
[17179649.328000] bttv2: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
[17179655.728000] bttv2: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
[17179662.128000] bttv2: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
[17179668.528000] bttv2: registered device video2
[17179668.528000] bttv2: registered device vbi2
[17179668.528000] bttv: Bt8xx card found (3).
[17179668.528000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0f.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 217
[17179668.528000] bttv3: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:0f.0, irq: 217, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdc006000
[17179668.528000] bttv3: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
[17179668.528000] bttv3: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00feffff [init]
[17179681.328000] tveeprom 5-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
[17179681.328000] bttv3: using tuner=-1
[17179681.328000] bttv3: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
[17179687.728000] bttv3: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
[17179694.128000] bttv3: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
[17179700.528000] bttv3: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
[17179706.928000] bttv3: registered device video3
[17179706.928000] bttv3: registered device vbi3
[17179706.956000] bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
[17179706.956000] bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
[17179706.956000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0c.1[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 177
[17179706.956000] bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:0c.1, irq: 177, latency: 32, memory: 0xdc001000
[17179706.956000] bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (1).
[17179706.956000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0d.1[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 225
[17179706.956000] bt878(1): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:0d.1, irq: 225, latency: 32, memory: 0xdc003000
[17179706.956000] bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (2).
[17179706.956000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0e.1[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, high) -> IRQ 209
[17179706.956000] bt878(2): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:0e.1, irq: 209, latency: 32, memory: 0xdc005000
[17179706.956000] bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (3).
[17179706.956000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0f.1[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 217
[17179706.956000] bt878(3): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:0f.1, irq: 217, latency: 32, memory: 0xdc007000
[17179707.488000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[17179707.520000] sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
[17179707.520000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[17179707.520000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[17179707.584000] Adding 1028152k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1028152k
[17179707.772000] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
[17179707.912000] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[17179707.912000] md: bitmap version 4.39
[17179708.468000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: [email]dm-devel@redhat.com[/email]
[17179709.256000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179715.548000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179715.548000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179715.640000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179715.668000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179720.728000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179721.084000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179721.084000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179727.836000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[17179727.836000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[17179727.836000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[17179727.836000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[17179727.880000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[17179727.880000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[17179727.880000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[17179727.880000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[17179727.880000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7Code: Select all
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.15-26-386)
looking for available devices
port 65-65
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV Video Overlay
port 66-97
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV Video Blitter
/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video ( *** UNKNOWN/GENER
flags: overlay capture tuner
/dev/video1: OK [ -device /dev/video1 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video ( *** UNKNOWN/GENER
flags: overlay capture tuner
/dev/video2: OK [ -device /dev/video2 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video ( *** UNKNOWN/GENER
flags: overlay capture tuner
/dev/video3: OK [ -device /dev/video3 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video ( *** UNKNOWN/GENER
flags: overlay capture tunerI've also tried running "modprobe bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133" from a Terminal but when running "dmesg" immediately after this it appears nothing has changed as the card is still unrecognised.
I've placed "option bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133" into the "/etc/modules" file but after rebooting and running "dmesg" from a Terminal I got the same result as above and so I assume it's not recognised the card - I think i must have edited the wrong file and so if anyone know could help I'd really appreciate it as the only option I have at the moment is to re-install Windows and use the supplied CCTV software --- however I can't stand windows and have wanted to get away from it for ages
Cheers, JamesX...
