Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-31 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi guys, Sorry to chime in late, but I was on holiday for two weeks, plus had my primary mail laptop crash it's disk sortly before that Anyways On 17 Jan, this message from Dylan Beaudette echoed through cyberspace: > On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: >> On Sun, 16

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-27 Thread SR, ESC
Le lun 2005-01-17 a 11:57:23 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > > I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel and > > report back here when i have some spare time. also -- i am pretty sure that > > the planb dr

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Monday 17 January 2005 01:16 pm, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > > I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel > > > and report back here when i have some spare time. also

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Monday 17 January 2005 01:16 pm, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > > I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel > > > and report back here when i have some spare time. also

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel and > > report back here when i have some spare time. also -- i am pretty sure > > that the planb driver needs the i2c subsys

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel and > > report back here when i have some spare time. also -- i am pretty sure > > that the planb driver needs the i2c subsys

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Sean Jewett
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel and > report back here when i have some spare time. also -- i am pretty sure that > the planb driver needs the i2c subsystem in order to function. Well, I can confirm 2.4.27, I jus

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Sean Jewett
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel and > report back here when i have some spare time. also -- i am pretty sure that > the planb driver needs the i2c subsystem in order to function. Well, I can confirm 2.4.27, I jus

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread vinai
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Sean Jewett wrote: > Here's a dumb question... what is videodev ? It could be that I have it > compiled in monolithic, I tend to stay away from modules if I know it's > something I'm going to need loaded in one way or the other (for > troubleshooting I did do planb as a modul

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread vinai
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Sean Jewett wrote: > Here's a dumb question... what is videodev ? It could be that I have it > compiled in monolithic, I tend to stay away from modules if I know it's > something I'm going to need loaded in one way or the other (for > troubleshooting I did do planb as a modul

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread david
First the camera does colour too but the quality sux ;) ok heres some more info nitro:~# cat /proc/video/dev/video0 name: Apple PlanB Video-In type: VID_TYPE_CAPTURE|VID_TYPE_OVERLAY hardware: 0x10 nitro:~# lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainte

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Sean Jewett
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, david wrote: > success! Egads! Now I'm feeling the pressure. > after getting X to run locally I fired up xawtv without any options and > saw pictures. Grabbed a few frames for posterity and made myself a cup > of tea. Looks like you shared a pict on your website! Awes

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Sean Jewett
(I've cc'd v4l in case anyone has any info they'd like to add) On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > Well it has been a while since I have messed around with all of this... and > it > seems that the 'Ben' -series PPC kernel tree is no longer maintained... FWIW, I have a 2.4.20 Ben ser

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread david
First the camera does colour too but the quality sux ;) ok heres some more info nitro:~# cat /proc/video/dev/video0 name: Apple PlanB Video-In type: VID_TYPE_CAPTURE|VID_TYPE_OVERLAY hardware: 0x10 nitro:~# lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted m

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread Sean Jewett
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, david wrote: > success! Egads! Now I'm feeling the pressure. > after getting X to run locally I fired up xawtv without any options and > saw pictures. Grabbed a few frames for posterity and made myself a cup > of tea. Looks like you shared a pict on your website! Awes

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread Sean Jewett
(I've cc'd v4l in case anyone has any info they'd like to add) On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > Well it has been a while since I have messed around with all of this... and > it > seems that the 'Ben' -series PPC kernel tree is no longer maintained... FWIW, I have a 2.4.20 Ben ser

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread david
success! after getting X to run locally I fired up xawtv without any options and saw pictures. Grabbed a few frames for posterity and made myself a cup of tea. The details 8600 ppc 350ev 320meg ram Matrox Millenium 1 video card Apple conference camera kernel 2.4.19 (via apt-get) - compiled wi

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Sunday 16 January 2005 12:55 pm, david wrote: > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > >On Friday 14 January 2005 10:26 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > >>Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > >>the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > >>moon? > >

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread david
success! after getting X to run locally I fired up xawtv without any options and saw pictures. Grabbed a few frames for posterity and made myself a cup of tea. The details 8600 ppc 350ev 320meg ram Matrox Millenium 1 video card Apple conference camera kernel 2.4.19 (via apt-get) - compiled with

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Sunday 16 January 2005 12:55 pm, david wrote: > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > >On Friday 14 January 2005 10:26 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > >>Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > >>the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > >>moon? > >

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread david
Sean Jewett wrote: If you can get around this one: ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(0,Composite,flags=0x0,type=2,norm=3): Invalid argument You're a saint. Until you can get around that you won't have any joy. According to v4l the problem lies in the driver (and seeing as v4l works with a lot of other c

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread david
Sean Jewett wrote: If you can get around this one: ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(0,Composite,flags=0x0,type=2,norm=3): Invalid argument You're a saint. Until you can get around that you won't have any joy. According to v4l the problem lies in the driver (and seeing as v4l works with a lot of other cards,

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread Sean Jewett
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, david wrote: > Some progress with planb perhaps.. Unfortunately no, you're seeing what I've been seeing. > i generated a 2.4.19 kernel from debian sources and enabled the planb > module. dmesg seems to report this is ok but the xawtv side seems to > remain problematic.

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread Sean Jewett
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, david wrote: > Some progress with planb perhaps.. Unfortunately no, you're seeing what I've been seeing. > i generated a 2.4.19 kernel from debian sources and enabled the planb > module. dmesg seems to report this is ok but the xawtv side seems to > remain problematic.

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread david
Hi all Some progress with planb perhaps.. i generated a 2.4.19 kernel from debian sources and enabled the planb module. dmesg seems to report this is ok but the xawtv side seems to remain problematic. i have made some notes on my weblog if you are interested... http://nitro.qednet.biz/cgi-

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-15 Thread david
Hi all Some progress with planb perhaps.. i generated a 2.4.19 kernel from debian sources and enabled the planb module. dmesg seems to report this is ok but the xawtv side seems to remain problematic. i have made some notes on my weblog if you are interested... http://nitro.qednet.biz/cgi-bin/b

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread david howe
g'day all I wrote to the list a couple of weeks ago about requirements for using the video input capabilities on an AV mac, i did receive some nice pointers including the reference to planB. As yet I haven't actually got around to implementing the web cam (which is where I was generally heade

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread david howe
g'day all I wrote to the list a couple of weeks ago about requirements for using the video input capabilities on an AV mac, i did receive some nice pointers including the reference to planB. As yet I haven't actually got around to implementing the web cam (which is where I was generally headed)

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Friday 14 January 2005 10:26 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? Yes. I have a working planb setup on an 8500/250 604e machine, running a custom comp

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 16:11:30 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > since v4l works with everything else) is fixed. > > Note, I spent an afternoon with a friend trying to hack the driver to no > avail. It's not that we've not looked at the source or tried to fix the > source. It jus

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, SR, ESC wrote: > why are you bothering with 2.4.18? FYI, the kernel stuff on that site > is ancient history. Because I've tried every current 2.4 kernel to NO avail. At one point 2.4.18 w/ the patch worked (apparently) and because there is DOCUMENTATION that states that 2

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 15:53:28 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? > > I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no a

Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the moon? I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no avail. My last ditch effort was to install YDL 2.3 and then install the RPM's Michel

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Friday 14 January 2005 10:26 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? Yes. I have a working planb setup on an 8500/250 604e machine, running a custom comp

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 16:11:30 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > since v4l works with everything else) is fixed. > > Note, I spent an afternoon with a friend trying to hack the driver to no > avail. It's not that we've not looked at the source or tried to fix the > source. It jus

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, SR, ESC wrote: > why are you bothering with 2.4.18? FYI, the kernel stuff on that site > is ancient history. Because I've tried every current 2.4 kernel to NO avail. At one point 2.4.18 w/ the patch worked (apparently) and because there is DOCUMENTATION that states that 2

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 15:53:28 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? > > I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no a

Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the moon? I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no avail. My last ditch effort was to install YDL 2.3 and then install the RPM's Michel