[AG-TECH] video capture

[Randy Groves]

I believe that the Osprey 210 cards will also work in PCI-X.

-randy

At 04:39 PM 10/21/2004, Patrick Johnson wrote:
>Victor,
>
>You are my hero!  Going to that unsupported kernel worked.
>I ran “xawtv –noxv” and I got video (There seems to be some color issues, 
>though).
>
>I’m using the Hauppage WinTV Radio cards (BT878) but I’m going to need to 
>get 4 Pinnacle PCTV-PRO(s) instead, since I only have PCI-X slots remaining.
>
>Thanks again for your help,
>
>Patrick Johnson
>Integrated Media Systems
>1260 N. Fee Ana
>Anaheim, CA 92807
>office: 714-579-4100
>cell: 714-225-0666
>pjohnson at imsav.com
>
>
>From: Victor M. Babson, Jr. [mailto:vbabson at secsg.uga.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:02 PM
>To: Patrick Johnson
>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] video capture
>
>Patrick,
>
>I would recommend using the link I sent you ONLY if the kernel-unsupported 
>rpm from <https://rhn.redhat.com>https://rhn.redhat.com doesn't work for you.
>
>--Vic
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:pjohnson at imsav.com>Patrick Johnson
>To: <mailto:vbabson at secsg.uga.edu>Victor M. Babson, Jr. ; 
><mailto:ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 5:52 PM
>Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] video capture
>
>I took out the [1] in the name and got the following error.
>
>%rpm –ivh kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm
>Error: kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm cannot be installed
>
>I am running as root and I on the 2.4.21-20.EL kernel
>
>Thanks,
>
>Patrick Johnson
>Integrated Media Systems
>1260 N. Fee Ana
>Anaheim, CA 92807
>office: 714-579-4100
>cell: 714-225-0666
><mailto:pjohnson at imsav.com>pjohnson at imsav.com
>
>
>From: Victor M. Babson, Jr. [mailto:vbabson at secsg.uga.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:33 PM
>To: Patrick Johnson
>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] video capture
>
>Got me!  Maybe rename the file taking out the [1].
>
>Also, are you running kernel 2.4.21.20 when trying to install?  If you are 
>running 2.4.21.15, that might break it...
>
>Here's the output from my box:
>
>[vbabson at rvideo vbabson]$ rpm -qa |grep kernel
>kernel-2.4.21-4.EL
>kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-15.EL
>kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.3
>kernel-source-2.4.21-15.EL
>kernel-smp-2.4.21-4.EL
>kernel-smp-2.4.21-15.EL
>kernel-2.4.21-15.EL
>kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13
>Let me know if you get anywhere....
>
>--Vic
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:pjohnson at imsav.com>Patrick Johnson
>To: <mailto:vbabson at secsg.uga.edu>Victor M. Babson, Jr.
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 5:11 PM
>Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] video capture
>
>Thank you, Vic.
>
>I downloaded the kernel-unsupported-2[1].4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm from your 
>webserver and ran (as root)
>% rpm –ivh  kernel-unsupported-2[1].4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm
>
>It returned with the following error 

>Error: File not found by glob: kernel-unsupported-2[1].4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>I ran a “rpm –qa | grep kernel” and found that I have the following kernel 
>packages already installed.
>Kernel-2.4.21-15.EL
>Kernel-2.4.21-20.EL
>Kernel-source-2.4.21-20.EL
>Kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.6
>Kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13
>
>Do I need to upgrade any of these first?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Patrick Johnson
>Integrated Media Systems
>1260 N. Fee Ana
>Anaheim, CA 92807
>office: 714-579-4100
>cell: 714-225-0666
>pjohnson at imsav.com
>
>
>From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On 
>Behalf Of Victor M. Babson, Jr.
>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:47 AM
>To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] video capture
>
>Patrick,
>
>I've successfully setup AG 2.2 on RHEL WS3.
>
>You need to install the kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-xx package.
>
>I have it on a webserver where you can grab it or just pull it from 
>redhat's site:
>
><http://vic.secsg.org/kernel-unsupported-2%5b1%5d.4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm>http://vic.secsg.org/kernel-unsupported-2[1].4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm
>
>After installing, you might have to run a
>"modprobe bttv"
>then bttv should show up when you
>"lsmod"
>
>Let me know if I can offer any more help:)
>
>If you get AG 2.3 loaded, please let me know about it.  I couldn't get it 
>to work, so I moved to Debian...  I'm working out a hostname problem right 
>now, but at least the install worked.
>
>--Vic
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:pjohnson at imsav.com>Patrick Johnson
>To: <mailto:ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:29 PM
>Subject: [AG-TECH] video capture
>
>
>I’m attempting to install a Hauppauge WINTV RADIO pci card (BT878 chipset) 
>on my RedHat Enterprise Linux WS version 3.  The driver for the card is 
>the bttv driver.  From my research about the driver it is suppose to be 
>built into the Linux kernel.  I’m running Kernel 
>2.4.21-20EL-i686.  RedHat’s hardware browser shows the card as a video 
>capture card and defines the driver as bttv.  However the card is not 
>“mapped” to a device.  I tried running
>
>% xawtv –noxv
>And it returned
>Can’t open /dev/video0
>
>I don’t really now how to troubleshoot this as I’m still a novice Linux user.
>
>I looked under /lib/modules/<Kernel version>/Kernel/drivers and I didn’t 
>see the bttv module.  When I try to modprobe for bttv it returns an error 
>saying it can’t locate the module.
>However, when I look under /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/drivers/media/video 
>I do see the bttv module source.
>
>Do I need to rebuild the Kernel?  I don’t know how to tell if the bttv 
>driver is already there and I don’t know how to rebuild the kernel 
>either.  I apologize if this is the wrong mailing list to be asking this 
>type of question but if it is could you direct me to where I can get help?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Patrick
>
>
>Patrick Johnson
>Integrated Media Systems
>1260 N. Fee Ana
>Anaheim, CA 92807
>office: 714-579-4100
>cell: 714-225-0666
>pjohnson at imsav.com
>