Re: Troubles about PC-COMP

["M.Stein" <matthias@gom.com>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Rolando Cantarutti wrote:

> Cipriani wrote:
> 
> >    Hello, my name is Roberto Cipriani and I'm working in the
> > Politecnico of Milan, on a vision sistem. I'm using a frame-grabber
> > fromImaging Technology named PC-COMP and a camera from Sony: XC-999P.
> > We are working under linux, so I got the drivers for the PC-COMP at
> > www.gom.com.There is a base driver (0.5.1) and some patches for using
> > the cmp-std modules.I'm trying to use the patched driver but the image
> > returned by the test program is strange and appears like to be out of
> > sinc. If someone can help me, I'll be very pleased, I'm quite in a
> > hurry and I don't know what to do.
> 
> > Thanks, Roberto Cipriani
> 
> Ciao Roberto!!
> 
> The amcmp patch was developed for use with the AM-STD board. I'm not
> quite sure of the differences between the AM-STD and
> the PC-COMP board. Anyway my first guess would be to check what format
> the Sony XC-999P uses, I mean NTSC or PAL.
> The AM-STD patch expects by default an NTSC signal. To set things up to
> receive a PAL signal you will have to initialize the
> device using the GIOC_GE_SET_CAMCNF ioctl call. Take a look to the
> AM-STD Hardware reference manual for standard format
> values to the elements of the cmp_cam_t structure in icpciExt.h.
> 
> Rolando Cantarutti
> 

I think AM-STD and PC-COMP are only different names for the same thing, so
the driver should work. Is the XC-999P a colcor camera?

					matthias