<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:51 PM, James Bromberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@rcpt.to">james@rcpt.to</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 12/10/2011 12:08 PM, Leon Wright wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Yeah looked very much like a PSU in AV1, smelt funny,
looked cheap (the PSU is the one place you don't want to go
cheap), wasn't posting and no initial flash of the keyboard lights
on power up. Tried a bios reset + reseating memory etc.</blockquote></div>
We have another dead machine that we didn't take to the venue last
night - AV4; so that's two down of the four we had. Does someone
want to see if they can resurrect one working by combining parts of
either? If anyone has time, let me know. While we probably won't
normally have three video cameras in operation, having two would be
good (having just one camera is a little boring).</div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I'm happy to take a look, bit of a hardware guy so I should be able to figure out what the drama is and get something operational.</div>
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I think having the right equipment, that is all consistent,
removing the on fly changes will go a long way to sorting out
the issues we had last night. I'm fairly confident we could
script a lot of the manual command running we have to do during
setup as well (I have some ideas). Ideally the AV boxes could be
headless. Plug in network, plug in power, switch on and walk
away.</div>
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Headless is potentially an issue for running Mumble; sadly, there's
only an X windows client for it, and not a command line one (new
project, anyone?). Ideally we wouldnt need X on the video
dvsource-firewire hosts, and thus it would require less resources.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Not something I thought of, however headless could be "optional" for the static cameras/twinpact boxes and making the same configuration for every box would mean that you could use any box for any job if there are issues etc. It could also be possible to launch mumble headless, but I've only had a brief play with it so far. (auto-login x, startup command etc)</div>
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