I have sort of the same problem. My VICs all default to composite1. If I manually change the port in the vic menu to Composite2, I see my video just fine. As soon as I change rooms it defaults back to Composite1. It's like it ignores the node management resource settings for the ports.
Any other linux users running 2.2 have this problem??? Note, I do not have opprey cards. I am running pinnacle PCTV Pro cards. This is because they support PCI-X slots (which my machines have more of the regular pci slots) But the problem sounds the same :-) Thanks Adam -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Dech Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:00 AM To: Andrew Daviel Cc: AG Tech List Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Fedora C2 & Ospreys On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:15PM, Andrew Daviel said: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Fred Dech wrote: > > > i believe that i have a configuration problem aside from AG2.2 with these > > Osprey100 cards. > > > > when i run xawtv, should i be able to see the output of one of these > > cards? i've tried using the -device option but haven't found > > anything it would accept. > > xawtv = Linux ?? > it's part of the AG2.2 install prereqs, if i remember right. > If so, there should be entries in the syslog and the bttv module should be > installed (lsmod |grep bttv) . There's install options for bttv.o to set > the card type, BTW, if it's not autodetected (affects which port is assigned to TV, s-video > etc.) > > May need "alias char-major-81 bttv" in /modules.comf (should be set by > kudzu) to install module automatically > > Cards should also show up with "lspci", e.g. > 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video > Capture (rev 02) > > Cards should show up (nowadays) in /dev/video0, video 1 etc > so try xawtv -c /dev/video0. I think it still defaults to /dev/video > which is now a directory. > > It should be possible to run multiple copies of xawtv one for each card. > I use it a lot for testing video (and for watching TV at home ....) > thanks for the detailed description, Andrew. this system has bttv installed, and they show up in modeprobe and lspci shows 2 Bt878 Video Captureres. i'm firing up xawtv -c /dev/video0 i'll be damned. i can see myself. and i'm having a bad hair day... huh. i must have been pointing toward the wrong device IDs in my previous attempts. i think i did point at /dev/video1(2) at some point and got nothing, but didn't bother to right-click. it defaults to PAL and TV. it works much better as NTSC and S-Video :-P xawtv -c /dev/video0 and xawtv -c /dev/video1 both work. so i guess it Is an AG config problem. i still get blue screens in my two sub-VICS, and i don't show up at all in the master-VIC. i hacked at /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix/Config.py complements of Adam Taylor.... def GetResources(self): deviceList = dict() videodevpath = '/dev' v4lctlexe = '/usr/bin/v4lctl' if os.path.exists('/sys/class/video4linux'): videodevpath = '/sys/class/video4linux' # Get list of devices cmd = "ls /sys/class/video4linux | grep video" fh = os.popen(cmd,'r') for line in fh.readlines(): device = os.path.join('/dev',line.strip()) deviceList[device] = None fh.close() ... so i can get these two VideoProducerServices in my AG Node Managment: VideoProducerServices /dev/video0 Enabled VideoProducerServices /dev/video1 Enabled Configuration for both: streamname Video port S-VIdeo encoding h261 standard NTSC when i select 'Menu' on my sub-VICs, i have: 'Device' v4I- BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt848)) /dev/video0(1) 'Signal' NTSC 'Port' option always defaults to Composite1 whenever i change venues?? changing it to S-Video doesn't seem to help, though. still no me. this is getting to be very time-consuming. --fred
