[AG-TECH] Fedora2 and Video sources

Douglas Kosovic douglask at itee.uq.edu.au
Thu Jul 1 02:27:04 CDT 2004


Hi Adam,

> Well, I installed the RPMS and started the Venue client(an XP machine with
> the patch for multi-os systems installed).  I did see my 3 capture cards.
> When I went to add them I got an add service error.  I figured that those
> machines have been on for a while and probable need to me restarted.  Once
> rebooted I started the AGServiceManager.py on the Fedora machine and the
> client on the XP machine.  Now NONE of my video sources show up anymore,
> only X11 again.  This is true if I run the venue client on capture machine
> also.
>
> Any thoughts??

Sorry, I don't have any video capture hardware on my Fedora Core 2 PC to
test it out. I'm going to try and borow a USB camera or something to test it
out.

Cheers,
Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Kosovic [mailto:douglask at itee.uq.edu.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:12 AM
> To: ULM AccessGrid
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Fedora2 and Video sources
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> > I think it's a Linux kernel 2.6 issue which was discussed in the "AG2.2
> > replacement for setupvideo.py" thread of this mailinglist a couple of
> weeks
> > ago. A patch was posted for AccessGrid/Platform/unix/Config.py, but
hasn't
> > made it to CVS yet.
> >
> > A number of other Fedora Core 2 changes have made it to CVS, I'll try
and
> > make a new RPM version based on the CVS code with the Config.py patch
and
> > post the location later today.
>
> I've placed a new RPM CVS snapshot at:
>   http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC2/unstable/RPMS/
> (Note: Exit in the Venue menu of the VenueClient doesn't work due to
> some bug in CVS)
>
> It includes the following patches:
>   http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC2/unstable/patches/
> plus, Steve Smith's Alsa 0.9/1.0 driver patch.
>
>
> I'm going to post more details about it on the mailinglist when I get to
> work.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
>




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