output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0100 (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev b5)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1c4a (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Tundra Semiconductor Corp. Device 8113
03:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Bluecherry Device 5310
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Device 1b21:1080 (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)

/proc/interrupts:

CPU0 CPU1
0: 32 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 6 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
17: 22411 195981 IO-APIC-fasteoi solo6x10
22: 202 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel
23: 125 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb2
29: 2249 3425 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
30: 238853 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth1
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 49444 53614 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
PND: 0 0 Performance pending work
RES: 38383 40057 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 6089 3232 Function call interrupts
TLB: 5137 3902 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 8 8 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

your card looks happy on IRQ 17.

dmesg lines containing solo:

[ 5.917999] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Probing Softlogic 6110
[ 5.918007] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17

/var/log/messages lines containing solo:

Sep 25 19:09:03 bluecherry kernel: [ 5.917999] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Probing Softlogic 6110
Sep 25 19:09:03 bluecherry kernel: [ 5.918007] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Sep 25 19:09:13 bluecherry kernel: [ 12.261094] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Display as /dev/video0 with 16 inputs (5 extended)
Sep 25 19:09:13 bluecherry kernel: [ 12.313507] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Encoders as /dev/video1-16
Sep 25 19:09:13 bluecherry kernel: [ 12.313694] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Alsa sound card as Softlogic0

Thanks John.

Installed to a new 1TB drive, partitioned whole drive with default partitioning, so space should not be an issue.

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/bluecherry-root
906G 1.2G 859G 1% /
none 2.0G 288K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
none 2.0G 44K 2.0G 1% /var/run
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1 228M 17M 199M 8% /boot

The camera can be live-viewed. It does not flicker, but the frame-rate is not steady - it will show a fast framerate then it will pause then go again. That's more noticeable at high frame rate settings, but I've tried low and high rates and it is the same.

'sudo ls -l /var/lib/bluecherry/recordings' returns:

drwxr-x--- 3 bluecherry bluecherry 4096 2011-09-25 19:10 2011

I'll consider letting you ssh in, but prefer not to if we can get it somehow.

Thanks.

-Casey

Hi John: Is there anything else you'd like me to try at this point? Should I try the 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 LTS instead? This week I need to figure out if "bluecherry dvr" software is for me, and if not either get Zoneminder working with your card, or return your card and figure something else out. So, just let me know how we can make some progress.

Thanks!

output of dpkg --get-selections | grep libav:

libavcodec52 install
libavformat52 install
libavutil49 install

Bingo? Should I then just apt-get install those others you listed?

Is there some meta-package I should install, or just those individually? I'll try it later today. Thanks.

When I install those 'extras' and I get complaints that the other ones need to be removed. So then when I do:

dpkg --get-selections | grep libav

libavcodec-extra-52 install
libavcodec52 deinstall
libavformat-extra-52 install
libavformat52 deinstall
libavutil-extra-49 install
libavutil49 deinstall

I'm not a master of apt-get, but should I now remove those three that say 'deinstall'?

-Casey

I did not remove them. So, now it works! Yeah. Well, now you have something to add to the dependency list -- perhaps it is true that when you put the ones with 'extra' in there you don't need to install the regular version. You can mark this one solved.

I have the server and client installed but my playback also does not work. When I run the command

dpkg --get-selections | grep libav

I get this output:

libavahi-client3                install
libavahi-common-data                install
libavahi-common3                install
libavahi-core6                    install
libavahi-glib1                    install
libavahi-gobject0                install
libavahi-ui0                    install
libavc1394-0                    install
libavcodec-extra-52                install
libavcodec52                    deinstall
libavformat-extra-52                install
libavformat52                    deinstall
libavutil-extra-49                install
libavutil49                    deinstall

Should I manually install these?