Responses inline in Red. Thanks for your help.
William
On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 5:56 AM Bernhard Praschinger <shadowl...@utanet.at>
wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Some thought's about what you try to accomplish. Sorry for the longer
> delay.
>
> > I have a Zoran based capture card that Lubuntu doesn't seem to
> > recognize. Here is what I have done so far. I'm new to linux so please
> > take that into consideration with you instructions.
> >
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>
> > 1. lspci | grep Zoran
> Which card do you actually want to use ? I don't know the type by the
> output of lspci.
>
0.6:09.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Zoran Corporation
ZR36057PQC Video cutting chipset [11de:6057] (rev 01)
>
> > 2. sudo dmidecode -t 2
> >
> > Is there support for AMD 790FX chipset?
> Which kernel does the distribution use ? (uname -a)
Linux ubuntu 3.19.0-15-generic
>
>
> 3. Kernel.org
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/media/v4l-drivers/zoran.html
> > <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/media/v4l-drivers/zoran.html>
> >
> > "unified zoran driver (zr360x7, zoran, buz, dc10(+), dc30(+), lml33)"
> >
> > I think this covers my card right?
> That is the correct part of the documentation.
>
> > 4. Tried steps
> >
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/media/v4l-drivers/zoran.html#how-do-i-get-this-damn-thing-to-work
> > Looking for the Zoran Conf file but it's not there
> If I understand the text correct you should try to load the driver
> manually, and if that works you create the file so you don't need to do
> everything manually.
> Can you point me to instructions on where to download the right driver and
> then how to load a driver manually?
>
> > 5. Load zr36067.o.
> > How do I do that?
> Depending on the kernel your distribution uses it can be that the driver
> is in the staging area. And not available by default.
> Newer Kernel like 4.x might have that problem. So if possible use a
> older distribution using a kernel 3.x or 2.6.x Also the mjpegtools and
> lavrec need oss, and have no native support for alsa means that
> recording sound can be tricky.
>
tried older kernel (see above) still not working
>
> > 6. run ‘v4l-conf -c <device>’
> > what do I use for the device? Is it some part of what I found in
> > lspci? The numeric portion (is that an ID?)
>
>
> auf hoffentlich bald,
>
> Berni the Chaos of Woodquarter
>
> Email: shadowl...@utanet.at
> www: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gz/bernhard
>
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