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by kylejohnson
Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:15 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Camera Card Identification
Replies: 24
Views: 19079

jameswilson, if you look a few posts up, all of the card info is there - does that help?

The connector on the camera won't let me plug it into the TV, unless there is a adapter.
by kylejohnson
Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:54 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Camera Card Identification
Replies: 24
Views: 19079

I gave the LiveCD a run and tired it from there - nadda. Again, dmesg | grep video and dmesg | grep bttv both produce good output (though it detects the card as GENERIC). Installed xawtv (./configure; make; make install) and no video. xawtv -hwscan did show /dev/video0 - 3 (4 devices) so I tried spe...
by kylejohnson
Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:29 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Camera Card Identification
Replies: 24
Views: 19079

OK - I have a system setup with zoneminder installed and the cards being detected: root@multivac:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# dmesg | grep video [ 14.581271] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 [ 13.430000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [ 109.650000] bttv0: registered device video0 [ 205.650000]...
by kylejohnson
Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:44 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Camera Card Identification
Replies: 24
Views: 19079

Thanks!

I had forgot that I posted this article, time passed, and I finally moved forward. Turns out that the cards are detected (using lspci) though I haven't actually installed zoneminder yet, but it should work out. I would have gave the LiveCD a shot if I knew it existed before-hand. :) I'll be followin...
by kylejohnson
Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:48 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Camera Card Identification
Replies: 24
Views: 19079

Camera Card Identification

Hello, A customer of mine is very unhappy with his current security camera software (I don't have the name - it's old and no longer developed) and is looking for an upgrade. I'd like to go the linux route, but first need to find out if his cards are supported. The cards do not have a name on them, a...