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Hello,

First of, Merry Christmas!

I have searched the forums for a couple of days now, hoping to find solutions to my problem. I have managed to get the card working alot better then before by specifying card type 77,.

I am unsure to the exact make of the card, but it came bundled with the Pico 2000 software for windows, which is no use to me as i am using Linux, but a quick google revealed it was infact a 878 card, and i should use type 77.

My issue is that the image displays with a distorted view, and i have scanlines over the image such as:



the Camera is a Swann Nightvision camera from Maplin and is PAL. For some reason i get ( ever so slight ) improvements with it set to AUTO for the device format.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards

Jay

how did you specify 77?
ebay special i assume, do you have a pic of the card

Hey,

Yes it was an ebay special , My boss at work bought it for me.

The card looks identical to this:
http://www.zorg.org/homeauto/pico2000.php

And it has the words UCL UCC4 on the back of the PCB.

I specified the options in the modprobe.conf

lol, how did you specify the options as it should work.

its either a duff modprobe line or camera/card

have you proved the cam

This is the line i added to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.conf:

options bttv card=77 tuner=-1

To be fair, i have not tested the camera, the card worked fine in Windows With another Swann cam, i will go test the other Cam now.

is this normal output?

[root@server01 ~]# dmesg | grep bttv
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:04.0, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xec000000
bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f360ff [init]
bt878: Unknown symbol bttv_read_gpio
bt878: Unknown symbol bttv_write_gpio
bt878: Unknown symbol bttv_gpio_enable
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... <6>Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok

yeah that looks ok, id check the cam

Thanks Jameswilson for your pointers. As usual, your tips help me get my system running sweetly.

Adding options bttv card=77 tuner=-1 to /etc/modprobe.conf fixed my el'cheapo ebay bt878 card and make spring to life in the LiveCD of v1.21.0. Actually, it looked like it was in NTSC mode, and I have PAL cameras.

I wanted to try these cards as you can pick them up for about AU$30 delivered. (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... :IT&ih=017)

Time to order 2 more cards and a few cameras (plan on 12 total), then i can remove these USB cameras I have on my WinXP machines using dcam and apache

Regards,

KegRaider.