Hi Supreeya, Just an easy question, is the bttv module loaded (or the module ur cards use)??
----- Original Message ----- From: "Supreeya Miller" <supreeya.mil...@usm.edu> To: "'Douglas Kosovic'" <dougl...@itee.uq.edu.au> Cc: "'ACCESS community'" <ag-t...@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-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@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 >
