[AG-TECH] FC3 on Video machine not recognize video capture cards

[Natalia Costas Lago]

Hi Supreeya,

Just an easy question, is the bttv module loaded (or the module ur cards 
use)??

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Supreeya Miller" <supreeya.miller at usm.edu>
To: "'Douglas Kosovic'" <douglask at itee.uq.edu.au>
Cc: "'ACCESS community'" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] FC3 on Video machine not recognize video capture 
cards


> Douglas,
>
> The attach file is the output of the command /etc/lspci.
>
> Looking at the file, the video capture controllers don't seem right.
>
> Let me say in detail how I got this problem:
> The Display machine has lost the use of one of the two
> processors.  The processor died by itself.  I have been operating on one
> processor for so long.  It came to the point that the Display became
> sticky, where I couldn't not move or do anything.  The Task Manager
> indicated that the CPU uses was at 100%.  Then I thought of switching
> between the Display and Video machines since the Video machine had 2
> processors.  I then took the 4 video capture cards out of the Video
> machine and put them in the Display machine.  At this point the Video
> machine was working just fine.  I had been using it since 2001.
> Just my luck that the Video machine saw the Windows XP cd ,but
> it would not install.  I got the DOS looking screen saying that the
> "Setup is configuring your hardware", then the screen went blank
> forever.  Then I used a DOS floppy disk and used the command "fdisk
> /mbr".  So that the machine would not recognize Linux anymore.  I still
> could not install Windows.
> I gave up and put the video capture cards back in the Video
> machine.  Since I lost Linux because of the fdisk command.  I
> reinstalled FC3 then AG2.3.  I ran the setup for a new node and found
> out that the machine does not see the cards.  I ran a "vic" command.  It
> said "trying /dev/video0...open: no such file or directory" for all
> video0, video1, video2, and video3.
> I look at the .AccessGrid directory and see no LocalService
> directory.
>
> Anything that you see wrong here?
>
> Supreeya Miller
> Visualization Researcher and Access Grid coordinator
> Center of Higher Learning
> Building 1103, Visualization Lab
> Stennis Space Center,  MS  39529
> Phone: 228-688-2190
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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 Douglas Kosovic
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:30 PM
> To: Supreeya Miller
> Cc: ACCESS community
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] FC3 on Video machine not recognize video capture
> cards
>
> Hi Supreeya,
>
>> I installed FC3 and AG2.3 on a Video capture machine, which has 4
> winnt
>> video capture cards.  The machine does not see the cards.  Any advice
> on
>> what to do, please?
>
> If you do a '/sbin/lspci' on the command line, what is the output? In
> particular the lines with "Multimedia video controller". Perhaps there
> is no
> Video4Linux driver available for those capture cards.
>
>
> Doug
>