On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, kh wrote: > I'm doing a college project in computer vision systems with a limited budget, >so I have to use whatever hardware is lying around - that being a PCI framegrabber >card and ccd cameras which came from an integrated vision system produced by Cognex, >Modular Systems Division (http://www.cognex.com), without any documentation >whatsoever. > The card is labelled "Acumen PCI Vision card", and supports 4 ccd cameras. >Unfortunately there seems to be no mention of it on the Internet, other than a >manufacturers PCI device-id. > Inspecting the card was more helpful - it uses an AMCC PCI Matchmaker (S5933), >for which full documentation is available. The rest of the card looks fairly custom - >nothing looks like a standard part - there are custom ASICs, a Lucent DSP, a Bt481 >ramdac... > Is it a lost cause to try and get this card to work? If not, where should I >start? Anybody come across Acumen/Cognex products or hardware before?
Unless you can get docs, writing a driver sounds pretty hopeless. There might be custom code you need to program into the DSP or any FPGA chips. You can buy bt848 cards that have a linux driver very inexpensively. Even if your time programming a driver for this mystery card is only worth $1/hour it's still probably cheaper to just get a bt848 card than to write a driver for this thing. There are bt848 cards with four composite inputs that you could use. _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
