How to install Meteor II/MC in Linux 7.2 Leo Song songwen@xxxxxxx (1) Download v4l2 and meteor2 driver, and v4l2app(optional) meteor2: http://www.emlix.com/meteor2 or search from google by "meteor2" v4l2 http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ download v4l2(videodevX-??????.tgz) and v4l2app Then following readme of meteor2 and v4l2 to do like below!!! (2) Enable Video for Linux and rebuild kernel cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10 make menuconfig (go to Multimedia devices-> set Video for Linux as moudule(must be "M", not "Y")) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.myker.05Feb2002 gedit /etc/lilo.conf ==> add one option ============================ image=/boot/bzImage.myker.05Feb2002 label=linux-new initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img read-only root=/dev/hda6 append="hdc=ide-scsi mem=124M" ============================ lilo reboot (3)install v4l2 cd [download_directory] tar zxvf videodevX-??????.tgz cd videodevX make make install (4)install meteor2 driver a) Unpack latest tar-ball: tar -xzf meteor2-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz This unpacks the sources into a subdirectory meteor2-YYYYMMDD. b) Change into the newly created subdirectory. c) Compile the module locally: make d) Copy the module meteor2.o into the /lib/modules/ hierarchy: make install e) Compile the DCF tool in the utils subdirectory: make -C utils f) Load the module: modprobe meteor2 (5)Run and test cd [meteor2_XXX]/utils ./dcf /dev/video0 ./pgmgrab /dev/video0 | xv - xv is program to show image, need install before. If not, use ./pgmgrab /dev/video0 > hello.pgm
