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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No idea about the real problem, just a
suggestion... maybe of rebooting u can remove and reload the kernel module
instead?.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I noticed the capture card u use has the c88xx
chip; time ago (more than a year) I dealt with one of those, the driver was in
0.0.3 version by that time and I could hardly make it work (only with a kernel
rebuild and much pain). I remember I posted my enquiries to ag-tech and more
people did afterwards, search that thread (there are many concerning cx88 chip)
to find some more information. Try a capture card with an 878
chip instead?.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope this helps,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----------------------------------<BR>Natalia
Costas Lago<BR>email: <A
href="mailto:natalia@cesga.es">natalia@cesga.es</A><BR> <BR>Centro de
Supercomputacion de Galicia (CESGA)<BR>Avenida de Vigo, s/n Campus Sur <BR>15706
Santiago de Compostela - SPAIN<BR>Tel: +34 981 56 98 10
<BR>Fax: +34 981 59 46 16<BR><A
href="http://www.cesga.es/">http://www.cesga.es/</A></FONT> </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=proshanta@gmail.com href="mailto:proshanta@gmail.com">Proshanta
Saha</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov
href="mailto:ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov">ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 03, 2005 7:36
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [AG-TECH] Wierd problems with
video using VIC in fedora 3/4</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>I've been debugging a non-responsive vic window
problem for days, what happens is that for the first 5 mins, I get perfect
motion on all 3 cameras. All of a sudden one of them will freeze up. Stoping
the session and staring it again causes vic to show a green window, and
essentially render that capture card useless. Still works under tvtime, just
not with vic. I am almost hitting a brick wall, ie. tried almost everything I
could to find out if it was my server(dual core dell 380s), capture card
(Hauppauge Winttv 401 c88xx version), linux (fedora 4), or the vic software.
<BR><BR>Step 1: was making sure that the Wintv cards were all good, and had
not problem running simultaneously for hrs, a fair amount of burn in tests
were done, the tv cards all seem to be able to run at capture mode for hrs
with no problem. <BR><BR>Step 2: was to see if vic was kind of not so nvidia
friendly, the video capture server has a dual head 128mb PCI-E, which I've
heard people find not so great to work with under linux. I personally did not
find any such problems, running at 1600x1200 just fine, perfect response time
and etc. But just for kicks I brought out a dual xeon dell box I had lying
around, with more than ample horse power with a pretty simple video card,
probably an intel i810 type of a card. Unfortunatley I faced the same
problem.<BR><BR>Step 3: Fedora 4 versus Fedora 3. So I decided to try Fedora 3
with some spare hard disks. Fedora 3 seems surprisingly easy to setup AG with,
unlike the mountain I had to climb for Fedora 4. However, it seems to also
mysteriously freeze one of the vic screens, after which every session would
produce a greed screen on the frozen vic. Only a reboot will fix the green
screen problem. But then after 5 mins of starting AG, I'm back to the frozen
screen problem.<BR><BR>Step 4: AG2.3 versus AG2.4, I was very excited when I
saw that the screen did not freeze up after five minutes. But alas after about
15 mins or so I get a frozen window, and will show up as a green screen
everytime after that. Only a reboot will fix that problem, and would
eventually freeze up again.<BR><BR>Step 5::Move 1 capture card to another
machine, as it seems to be able to handle 2 just fine. But it appears that
even in this case VIC would cause a frozen screen on one of the windows. And
the usual green screen appears. The one with just 1 works perfectly.
<BR><BR>So I'm kind of running out of ideas, since the capture cards on their
own pass the burn in test. Software capture tests all pass. The VIC however
mysteriously causes a frozen screen followed by a green screen in next vic
startup. <BR><BR>Any suggestions would be most welcome. Kind of running out of
hair to pull aswell. Thanks in
advance.<BR><BR>Proshanta<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>