[AG-TECH] Fedora C2 & Ospreys

[Ivan R. Judson]

This might be too elementary to have not been done, but have you tried
reconfiguring using the Node Management stuff and saving your new
configuration?

Instructions are at:

 
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/documentation/VENUE_CLIEN
T_MANUAL_HTML/VenueClientManualHTML.htm

Look under section 2.13 Managing your node

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of ULM AccessGrid
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 1:42 PM
> To: 'Fred Dech'
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Fedora C2 & Ospreys
> 
> The port problem has been filed under bug 1067.
> 
> I have tried everything to fix the port problem.  Even if I 
> hardcode the values it reverts back to Composite1.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Adam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Fred Dech
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 1:07 PM
> To: ULM AccessGrid
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Fedora C2 & Ospreys
> 
> yeah.  i believe the video port issu is a feature that should 
> be investigated further.
> 
> all this time i assumed i wasn't transmitting video because 
> my two sources don't show up on VIC.  i actually decided to 
> test with another node to see what came up when i was 
> swapping out S-Video for composite, etc.  it turns out that 
> when i've configured my VideoProducerServices to S-Video, 
> rather than TV (i have to do this whenever i start up the 
> Venue Client, but it sticks when switching venues), and i've 
> switched my video transmission ports from
> composite1 to S-Video each time i enter a venue, then i 
> actually am transmitting correct (more or less) video to 
> other clients connected to the venue.
> i just can't see my video sources at my node.
> i disabled my firewall, thinking that this might be caused by 
> blocked loopbacks as was discussed relating to RAT last week. 
>  but that is not the problem, apparently, since VIC still 
> doesn't display my streams.
> 
> 'anybody else running into this?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> --fred
> 
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:43AM, ULM AccessGrid said:
> > I have sort of the same problem.  My VICs all default to 
> composite1.  
> > If I manually change the port in the vic menu to 
> Composite2, I see my 
> > video
> just
> > fine.  As soon as I change rooms it defaults back to 
> Composite1.  It's
> like
> > it ignores the node management resource settings for the ports.  
> > 
> > Any other linux users running 2.2 have this problem???
> > 
> > Note, I do not have opprey cards.  I am running pinnacle 
> PCTV Pro cards.
> > This is because they support PCI-X slots (which my machines 
> have more 
> > of
> the
> > regular pci slots)  But the problem sounds the same :-)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
> Behalf
> > Of Fred Dech
> > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:00 AM
> > To: Andrew Daviel
> > Cc: AG Tech List
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Fedora C2 & Ospreys
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:15PM, Andrew Daviel said:
> > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Fred Dech wrote:
> > > 
> > > > i believe that i have a configuration problem aside from AG2.2 
> > > > with
> > these
> > > > Osprey100 cards.
> > > >
> > > > when i run xawtv, should i be able to see the output of one of 
> > > > these cards?  i've tried using the -device option but haven't 
> > > > found anything it would accept.
> > > 
> > > xawtv = Linux ??
> > >
> > it's part of the AG2.2 install prereqs, if i remember right.
> >  
> > > If so, there should be entries in the syslog and the bttv module 
> > > should
> be
> > > installed (lsmod |grep bttv) . There's install options 
> for bttv.o to 
> > > set the card type, BTW, if it's not autodetected (affects 
> which port 
> > > is
> > assigned to TV, s-video
> > > etc.)
> > > 
> > > May need  "alias char-major-81 bttv" in /modules.comf 
> (should be set 
> > > by
> > > kudzu) to install module automatically
> > > 
> > > Cards should also show up with "lspci", e.g.
> > > 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 
> > > Video  Capture (rev 02)
> > > 
> > > Cards should show up (nowadays) in /dev/video0, video 1 
> etc so try 
> > > xawtv -c /dev/video0. I think it still defaults to  
> /dev/video which 
> > > is now a directory.
> > > 
> > > It should be possible to run multiple copies of xawtv one 
> for each card.
> > > I use it a lot for testing video (and for watching TV at 
> home ....)
> > >
> > thanks for the detailed description, Andrew.
> > 
> > this system has bttv installed, and they show up in modeprobe and 
> > lspci shows 2 Bt878 Video Captureres.
> > 
> > i'm firing up xawtv -c /dev/video0
> > i'll be damned.  i can see myself.  and i'm having a bad hair day...
> > huh.
> > i must have been pointing toward the wrong device IDs in my 
> previous 
> > attempts.
> > i think i did point at /dev/video1(2) at some point and got 
> nothing, 
> > but didn't bother to right-click.  it defaults to PAL and TV.  it 
> > works much better as NTSC and S-Video :-P
> > 
> > xawtv -c /dev/video0 and
> > xawtv -c /dev/video1 both work.  
> > 
> > so i guess it Is an AG config problem.  i still get blue 
> screens in my 
> > two sub-VICS, and i don't show up at all in the master-VIC.
> > 
> > i hacked at
> > /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix/Config.py
> > complements of Adam Taylor....
> > 
> >     def GetResources(self):
> >     
> >         deviceList = dict()
> >         
> >         videodevpath = '/dev'
> >         v4lctlexe = '/usr/bin/v4lctl'
> >         
> >         if os.path.exists('/sys/class/video4linux'):
> >             videodevpath = '/sys/class/video4linux'
> >             # Get list of devices
> >             cmd = "ls /sys/class/video4linux | grep video"
> >             fh = os.popen(cmd,'r')
> >             for line in fh.readlines():
> >                 device = os.path.join('/dev',line.strip())
> >                 deviceList[device] = None
> >             fh.close()
> >            ...
> > 
> > so i can get these two VideoProducerServices in my AG Node 
> Managment:
> > VideoProducerServices  /dev/video0    Enabled
> > VideoProducerServices  /dev/video1    Enabled
> > 
> > Configuration for both:
> > streamname Video
> > port       S-VIdeo
> > encoding   h261
> > standard   NTSC
> > 
> > when i select 'Menu' on my sub-VICs, i have:
> > 'Device' v4I- BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt848)) 
> /dev/video0(1) 'Signal' 
> > NTSC 'Port' option always defaults to Composite1 whenever i change 
> > venues??
> > changing it to S-Video doesn't seem to help, though.  still no me.
> > 
> > this is getting to be very time-consuming.
> > 
> > --fred
> 
>