MATRIX VISION hardware on CentOS systems
mvSIGMA-SLC, mvTITAN-G1, mvBlueFOX, mvIMPACT Acquire, mvSDK, CentOS
Testprotocol CentOS 5
Test coverage
Note: Linux mvIMPACT Acquire interface is currently not available for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA- , mvDELTA/mvSIGMA-series. For this series the older mvSDK driver must be installed instead.
Test system
Additional remarks
Additionally required and optional mvIMPACT Acquire related packages
Add RPMForge RPM repository:
Package list:
Additionally required and optional mvSDK related packages
Load the kernel module
Installation / additionally required and optional mvSDK related packages
CPU frequency
Test coverage
- MV hardware: mvSIGMA-SLC , mvTITAN-G1 , mvBlueFOX
- Current SDK mvIMPACT Acquire: mvBlueFOX
- Older mvSDK: mvSIGMA-SLC , mvTITAN-G1
- CentOS 5.2 x86
- Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus
- mvTITAN: dist_titan-1.5.27.99-1.tar.gz
- mvBlueFOX: mvbluefox-x86-ABI2-1.10.49.127.tgz
- mvSIGMA: dist_slx-4.1.6.43.tar.gz
Note: Linux mvIMPACT Acquire interface is currently not available for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA- , mvDELTA/mvSIGMA-series. For this series the older mvSDK driver must be installed instead.
Test system
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
- Asus M3A78?-EM
- NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT
- Using VESA driver for X
Hardware | Comment | Test | Success | AR # |
---|---|---|---|---|
mvBlueFOX | 1 | |||
Console | LiveSnap | yes | ||
GUI | wxPropView Init | yes | ||
GUI | wxPropView Live | yes | ||
GUI | wxPropView Snap | yes | ||
mvTITAN | 2,2a | |||
Kernel module | Build kernel module | yes | ||
SDL | SDL_demo | yes | RS-170 camera on mvTITAN-G1 | |
mvSIGMA-SLC | SLX | 5 | ||
Kernel module | Build kernel module | yes | ||
Kernel module | Load kernel module | yes | 5 | |
SDL | SDL_demo | yes | 6 (need to disable cpudynd) |
Additional remarks
Additionally required and optional mvIMPACT Acquire related packages
Add RPMForge RPM repository:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
Package list:
- wxGTK 2.8.9
- wxGTK-devel 2.8.9
- gcc
- gcc-c++
- expat-devel
- + dependencies
Additionally required and optional mvSDK related packages
- SDL-devel
- gcc
- gcc-c++
- kernel-devel
Load the kernel module
insmod allocator.ko insmod titan.ko depmod -a dist-titan../bin/> ./mvunload titan dist-titan../bin/> ./mvload titan
Installation / additionally required and optional mvSDK related packages
- SDL-devel
- gcc
- gcc-c++
- kernel-devel
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist bttv blacklist bt8x8
./mvload matrixfg ./mvload xsigma
CPU frequency
- Need to disable dynamic CPU clock otherwise -> no camera connected
ps -A | grep cpudynd
kill -9
/usr/sbin/cpuspeed -C
(if not exist install this with yum) This will set the CPU clock to the max value.- Check current CPU frequency:
>cat /proc/cpuinfo