Hey Richard, On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:56, Richard Bottoms wrote: > I have a 1.2GHz machine on the way, this one is just for development in the > meantime. For this application I just need to grab one frame of video, save > it to disk, wait 10 seconds then grab the next. It's for a security camera. > > So your belief is it's jusy not enough memory in the machine and speed to > do the job? I'm wondering why you'd want a *DC10+* for such a job, where a webcam would normally be more than enough! Well, the thing is, the DC10+ does DMA capture, so it needs some free physical memory for capture. For a webcam, any kind of virtual memory would generally be enough, as the data comes in over the USB bus and doesn't need DMA or anything. Make sure you have a few 100 kB (or better yet: at least several MB) of physical memory left before trying to use the DC10+. 64 MB should generally be enough, depending on your environment. I've ran the DC10+ inside Blackbox + X 4.x on RH70 for a while with 64 MB RAM, but for heavier Desktop environments like Gnome-2.x or KDE-3.x, I'd recommend at least 128 MB of RAM. Oh, and 350 MHz is enough, some people use such a card on ~ 200 MHz machines. Ronald -- Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
