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Installed Ubuntu 8.04
Installed Zoneminder via Synaptic.
Physicallly installed PV-149 I bought from bluecherry.
I cannot get pics out of it, I have a camera on one input.
However, just as I was posting this, I looked again at result of xawtv and I did get part of a picture, but don't recall doing anything to make that happen, and in the past, got nothing. Nothing shows when I do montage in Zoneminder.

Not sure where to start on this, but:

jmcgee@zoneminder:~$ xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24-19-generic)
looking for available devices
port 355-386
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV17 Video Texture

port 387-418
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV05 Video Blitter

/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150)
flags: overlay capture

/dev/video1: OK [ -device /dev/video1 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150)
flags: overlay capture

/dev/video2: OK [ -device /dev/video2 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150)
flags: overlay capture

/dev/video3: OK [ -device /dev/video3 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video (ProVideo PV150)
flags: overlay capture

jmcgee@zoneminder:~$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24-19-generic)
xinerama 0: 1024x768+0+0
X Error of failed request: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
Major opcode of failed request: 137 (XFree86-DGA)
Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: WARNING: framebuffer size mismatch
v4l2: me=1024x768 v4l=0x0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=MMAP): Success

jmcgee@zoneminder:~$ dmesg | grep bttv
[ 34.754255] bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
[ 34.754261] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[ 34.755176] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[ 34.755604] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:04:08.0, irq: 21, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdbff000
[ 34.757998] bttv0: detected: Provideo PV150A-1 [card=98], PCI subsystem ID is aa00:1460
[ 34.758004] bttv0: using: ProVideo PV150 [card=98,autodetected]
[ 34.758038] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[ 34.758361] bttv0: tuner absent
[ 34.758385] bttv0: registered device video0
[ 34.758405] bttv0: registered device vbi0
[ 34.758427] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
[ 34.795019] bttv: Bt8xx card found (1).
[ 34.795473] bttv1: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:04:09.0, irq: 22, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdbfd000
[ 34.795491] bttv1: detected: Provideo PV150A-2 [card=98], PCI subsystem ID is aa01:1461
[ 34.795494] bttv1: using: ProVideo PV150 [card=98,autodetected]
[ 34.795528] bttv1: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[ 34.795836] bttv1: tuner absent
[ 34.795862] bttv1: registered device video1
[ 34.795883] bttv1: registered device vbi1
[ 34.795904] bttv1: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .<6>NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 34.825869] bttv: Bt8xx card found (2).
[ 34.826304] bttv2: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:04:0a.0, irq: 23, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdbfb000
[ 34.826321] bttv2: detected: Provideo PV150A-3 [card=98], PCI subsystem ID is aa02:1462
[ 34.826324] bttv2: using: ProVideo PV150 [card=98,autodetected]
[ 34.826357] bttv2: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[ 34.826660] bttv2: tuner absent
[ 34.826683] bttv2: registered device video2
[ 34.826748] bttv2: registered device vbi2
[ 34.826768] bttv2: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
[ 34.857834] bttv: Bt8xx card found (3).
[ 34.857874] bttv3: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:04:0b.0, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdbf9000
[ 34.857890] bttv3: detected: Provideo PV150A-4 [card=98], PCI subsystem ID is aa03:1463
[ 34.857893] bttv3: using: ProVideo PV150 [card=98,autodetected]
[ 34.857920] bttv3: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[ 34.858216] bttv3: tuner absent
[ 34.858239] bttv3: registered device video3
[ 34.858260] bttv3: registered device vbi3
[ 34.858281] bttv3: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
jmcgee@zoneminder:~$ ls /dev/vi* -lah
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2008-09-24 19:26 /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 1 2008-09-24 19:26 /dev/video1
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 2 2008-09-24 19:26 /dev/video2
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 3 2008-09-24 19:26 /dev/video3

This might help:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11851

cordel wrote:This might help:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11851

thanks, i tried
xawtv -nodga -device /dev/video4
with no luck.

Have you tried chmod 777 /dev/video0 to 3?
What do you get from ls /usr/bin/zmfix -l?

cordel wrote:Have you tried chmod 777 /dev/video0 to 3?
What do you get from ls /usr/bin/zmfix -l?

ok, I did some more reading in the wiki, still no further.

I don't understand "to 3" above. what is the command line to type?
I did chmod 777 /dev/video0

output from /usr/bin/zmfix -l is
nothing.

but i did ls -l /usr/bin/zmfix and got:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 43048 2008-02-12 13:51 /usr/bin/zmfix

I did
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/zmfix

then output from ls -l /usr/bin/zmfix is still
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 43048 2008-02-12 13:51 /usr/bin/zmfix

I do get a picture from
xawtv

but I also get in terminal:
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24-19-generic)
xinerama 0: 1024x768+0+0
X Error of failed request: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
Major opcode of failed request: 137 (XFree86-DGA)
Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: WARNING: framebuffer size mismatch
v4l2: me=1024x768 v4l=0x0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=MMAP): Success


If I do xawtv -nodga -device /dev/video0
I get scrambled picture and in terminal:
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24-19-generic)
xinerama 0: 1024x768+0+0
X Error of failed request: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
Major opcode of failed request: 137 (XFree86-DGA)
Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: WARNING: framebuffer size mismatch
v4l2: me=1024x768 v4l=0x0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_REQBUFS(count=2;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;memory=MMAP): Success
ioctl: VIDIOC_DQBUF(index=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;bytesused=0;flags=0x0 [];field=ANY;;timecode.type=0;timecode.flags=0;timecode.frames=0;timecode.seconds=0;timecode.minutes=0;timecode.hours=0;timecode.userbits="";sequence=0;memory=MMAP): Input/output error