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

[Supreeya Miller]

Thanks to Natalia that gave me a light.  I was not sure about what she
said, so I did a google search and learned about bttv driver for video
for Linux.  I installed it, and everything works as before.  

Thanks all for helping.

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
Fax:     228-688-7454
Box:     10002


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Natalia Costas Lago
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:15 PM
To: Supreeya Miller; 'Douglas Kosovic'
Cc: 'ACCESS community'
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] FC3 on Video machine not recognize video capture
cards


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
> Fax:     228-688-7454
> Box:     10002
>
>
> -----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
>