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

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