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richardedwards
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stuck!

Post by richardedwards »

Afternoon all...

I have treated myself to birdbox with a camera in and a Euresys PicoloPro video card. All of which is plugged in to my Ubuntu box server.

The camera loads all ok using Cheese.

I used the instructions from; http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... 10_Desktop

BUT

the monitor source is appearing in red on the config page and no camera image.

i dont really know where to start - the web seems to be littered with solutions - but i cannot really see the wood for the trees...

can someone point me in the right direction pls?

thx vm
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jdhar
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Post by jdhar »

First step is to enable debugging (as described in documentation), and then post us some snippets of your logs in /tmp/zm*.log. Also check /var/log/syslog. That's a good place to start.
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BrianD
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Re: stuck!

Post by BrianD »

Hello All
I'm also stuck with the same problem. I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 and have managed to install Zoneminder.
Could you tell me where to find /tmp/zm*.log and /var/log/syslog and I will send the output in?
I am new to Linux so please be gentle!

Brian
BrianD
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Re: stuck!

Post by BrianD »

Some more information. I seem to lose video0 -


brian@linuxbox:~$ sudo xawtv -c /dev/video0 -q -v
[sudo] password for brian:
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.35-30-generic)
xinerama 0: 1680x1050+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available

Any suggestions?
BD
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