[AG-TECH] AG2.2 replacement for setupvideo.py
Ivan R. Judson
judson at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Jun 21 18:17:10 CDT 2004
Cool, it looks like there are plenty of others in the same situation. It'll
be nice to get this fixed.
--Ivan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Osland, CD (Chris) [mailto:C.D.Osland at rl.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 7:15 AM
> To: 'judson at mcs.anl.gov'; Osland, CD (Chris) ; dgolden at cp.dias.ie
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; Thorpe, MS (Matt)
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] AG2.2 replacement for setupvideo.py
>
> Ivan,
>
> I completely understand that you can't test everything.
>
> We're just in the process of getting some new hardware in
> which we can test things - at present I don't have a machine
> in which I can load 2.2.
>
> We'll be in touch when we can.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ivan R. Judson [mailto:judson at mcs.anl.gov]
> > Sent: 21 June 2004 12:13
> > To: 'Osland, CD (Chris) '; dgolden at cp.dias.ie
> > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; 'Thorpe, MS (Matt) '
> > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] AG2.2 replacement for setupvideo.py
> >
> >
> >
> > Hey Chris,
> >
> > The existing interfaces are meant to be reasonably stable and
> > permanent, however there is work being done on node
> management to make
> > it more clear and complete.
> >
> > Please have Matt send a clear and complete description of
> the problem
> > and the fix either to ag-tech or filed in bugzilla so that can be
> > integrated at the design phase, rather than testing :-). If
> there are
> > other issues with node management, now is the time to let us know,
> > when Tom gets back from his family vacation he'll be deep
> in node mgmt
> > work.
> >
> > --Ivan
> >
> > PS -- We've never even tried the registry thing since we don't have
> > those cards, we're relying on you all who do to tell us
> when it does
> > and doesn't work -- which means you really need to be
> willing to try
> > the alpha/beta software to make sure it gets into a release -- we
> > don't have the resources to get and test every hardware
> configuration
> > in use.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Osland, CD (Chris) [mailto:C.D.Osland at rl.ac.uk]
> > > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:46 AM
> > > To: 'judson at mcs.anl.gov'; dgolden at cp.dias.ie
> > > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; Thorpe, MS (Matt)
> > > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] AG2.2 replacement for setupvideo.py
> > >
> > > Just a comment from the outfield ...
> > >
> > > I think this is the area that can allow or disallow multi-input
> > > video capture cards (e.g. the Winnov Videum 4400 which we use) to
> > > work - which Matt Thorpe solved with a patch to the registry (I'm
> > > talking Windows XP here, of course).
> > > Just a request that some mechanism (setupvideo.py or registry
> > > hack) still allows this sort of card to work under AG 2.2, as we
> > > don't anticipate moving to inSors software, so can't use
> the 'inSors
> > > patch'. I'd heard that what Matt had worked out for AG
> 2.1.2 didn't
> > > work in AG 2.2; I think that comment was from Cindy.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > > Behalf Of Ivan R. Judson
> > > Sent: 18 June 2004 16:55
> > > To: dgolden at cp.dias.ie
> > > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] AG2.2 replacement for setupvideo.py
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That makes sense, clearly the discovery of devices in
> that code is
> > > platform specific.
> > >
> > > If you can write a python function that enumerates them we can
> > > integrate that as a patch.
> > >
> > > --Ivan
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: dgolden at cp.dias.ie [mailto:dgolden at cp.dias.ie]
> > > > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:43 AM
> > > > To: judson at mcs.anl.gov
> > > > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] AG2.2 replacement for setupvideo.py
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > We'll have to sort out what's going on.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Haven't filed a formal bug report yet, but I
> immediately saw the
> > > > problem once pointed to that method:
> > > >
> > > > /proc/video/dev doesn't exist at all on my system...
> > > > (stock debian 2.6 kernel).
> > > >
> > > > In kernel 2.6 , the information is available via sysfs in
> > > > /sys/class/video4linux not /proc/video/dev ...
> > > >
> > > > In 2.6 there has been a move to rationalise the /proc fs
> > to be for
> > > > processes only, and the sundry kernel stuff to /sys
> > > >
> > > > Neater that way, I guess.
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > >
> > > > David Golden
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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