Re: [Motion-user] Device or resource busy error

[Tom D. <td...@co...>]

That fixed the problem.  I assumed I was getting the most current
version since it was the most current version of Ubuntu.  Thanks for
your help!

     ...Tom

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 05:10 +0200, Angel Carpintero wrote:

> El jue, 04-09-2008 a las 22:21 -0400, Tom Dedula escribió:
> > I would like to install motion on a system with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and can't
> > seem to get it working.  I have searched Google and tried a bunch of
> > things without much luck.  I know the card is working because I can see
> > video using xawtv when I use /dev/video0 and composite 1.  I have
> > included as much information below as I could think of to capture.  Does
> > anyone have any suggestions on what could be wrong or what to try next?
> > Thanks!
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> You should try to use stable version of motion and not that old version
> that comes with debian/ubuntu. You can download src and deb from :
> 
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/DownloadFiles
> 
> 
> 
> >      ...Tom
> > 
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux d2400-1 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686
> > GNU/Linux
> > 
> > $ cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
> > cat: /dev/video0: Device or resource busy
> 
> Are you using other application that locks up your capture card ?
> 
> > [1] 3 length=118784
> > [1] VIDIOC_QBUF: Device or resource busy
> > [1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map
> > [1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated!
> > [1] Motion only supports mmap.
> > [1] Capture error calling vid_start
> > [1] Thread finishing...
> 
> Here motion tries to capture using V4L2 but fails and tries V4L ...
> 
> From what input are you trying to capture ?
> 
> motion.conf ( input ??? )
> 
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionInput
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
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