[AG-TECH] video capture

Thu Oct 21 18:39:05 CDT 2004

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

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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 doesn't work for you.

--Vic

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: Patrick Johnson <mailto:pjohnson at imsav.com>  

	To: Victor M. Babson, Jr. <mailto:vbabson at secsg.uga.edu>  ;
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

	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: Patrick Johnson <mailto:pjohnson at imsav.com>  

		To: Victor M. Babson, Jr. <mailto:vbabson at secsg.uga.edu>

		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[1].4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm
<http://vic.secsg.org/kernel-unsupported-2%5b1%5d.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: Patrick Johnson
<mailto:pjohnson at imsav.com>  

			To: 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

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