Re: [Motion-user] BT878 picture

[Neil S. <Neil.Smith@ThrottleSteer.com>]

Gentlemen,

Thank you all very much indeed for the advice. Milan's suggestion to
modprobe  the card with card=77 did the trick for me.

Many thanks,

Neil.



On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 21:04 +0100, Milan van de Swaluw wrote:

> Niel,
> 
> I've got the same card running with Debain. When linux boots it starts 
> the bttv module with no or the wrong options.
> 
> try unloading bttv (rmmod bttv) and restarting it with (modprobe bttv 
> card=77).
> 
> Works for me.
> 
> Milan
> 
> Neil Smith schreef:
> > Hi,
> >
> >     I'm using a super-cheap Chinese one-chip 4 port BT878 card on an 
> > AMD machine running Ubuntu 7.10 and motion 3.2.4 (from Ubuntu's 
> > repositories). I forget the Processor spec - 2400 or so with 512MB of RAM.
> >
> >     Before I can configure Motion, I need to get it to see a decent 
> > picture.
> >
> >     The camera's this one: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/120743 it has 
> > IR's and at the moment is installed in my loft where the sever resides.
> >
> >     Using camstream, I can see that the picture isn't stable. I've 
> > tried various resolutions, but to no avail.
> >    
> >     I must be doing something fundamentally bone-headed to be stuck 
> > like this - can anyone who's been here before enlighten me please?
> >
> >     I've attached an example of the output.
> >
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> >    
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