Just out of curiosity... Are you running RedHat 7.2? If so what are your hardware specs for your motherboard, processor, video card...? Chris Tooley On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:18, Steven Brunasso wrote: > Tried xawtv, that didn't make it either. > > I am a little lost. > > s > > [root@ip21 root]# xawtv > This is xawtv-3.54, running on Linux/i586 (2.4.7-10) > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "lightgray" > switching visual (0x2e) > /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway > ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=7,size=8x4): Invalid argument > ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=15,size=8x4): Invalid argument > ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=1,size=8x4): Invalid argument > ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=6,size=8x4): Invalid argument > ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=13,size=8x4): Invalid argument > no way to get: 384x288 8 bit StaticGray > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Brunasso [mailto:sbrunasso@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 16:59 > To: 'video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: RE: What am I doing wrong? IBMCAM not found > > > Hmm, > > Well the output is just > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > For 230400 bytes. > > Is this an image..?? I'll have to try to translate it. > > s > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dmitri [mailto:dmitri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 16:47 > To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Steven Brunasso > Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong? IBMCAM not found > > > Quoting Steven Brunasso <sbrunasso@xxxxxxxx>: > > > Does anyone have a quick program for ibmcam to save file to disk perhaps? > > cat < /dev/video0 > file.dat > > The file will contain BGR24 frames, *with no separators* between them. You > must know your image size to decode it properly. But it will work. You can > use raw2ppm or something for that. > > You should see lots of data sent from the driver (megabytes) until you ^C > the process (or cat stops on its own, being unable to deal with EOF > event). > > The log that you provided is correct. > > I see that only one open() was done, and no data was sent to userspace. > > > [root@ip21 videox]# date > > Mon Dec 10 16:17:53 PST 2001 > > [root@ip21 videox]# ./vctrl /dev/video0 320x240x24 > > getting video format: Invalid argument > > Nothing in the log about this. Maybe videodev rejected the ioctl? > ibmcam would have logged the error. > > Did you try `xawtv -remote -c /dev/video0` ? I don't remember any more :-( > > The ibmcam driver offers only BGR24 format, and can deal with image sizes > below certain maximum (defined by the camera hardware). Your setting is > correct, apparently. > > Dmitri > > -- > Yesterday upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. > He wasn't there again today; I think he's from the CIA. > - David Rodenhiser > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
