[Motmot] Error opening camera: AVT Guppy cam + FView on Ubuntu Lucid (10.4.1)

[Swidbert R. Ott]

Dear Andrew,

Can you please help with this.  I thought this would be very straightforward but I am totally stuck.
I just bought an AVT Guppy Firewire camera (the B/W CMOS model) and I cannot get it to work with FView.

This is under Ubuntu 10.4.1 Desktop, 64 bit, fresh clean install (although I did go back and forth between plain FView and AVT-versions after I could not get the original FView set-up to work).

When driving the camera through AVT's cc1394 utility, it seems to work fine.

FView recognizes the camera ("Camera > initialize camera..." shows it as "AVT Guppy F036B (A47010F0A5A35h)",
but after selecting the video mode (regardless of which one), I get an
"Error opening camera" dialog box (see below).

I have tried this both with
-- plain vanilla FView installation
-- using what I take are the AVT-specific versions of your modules
I get the "Error opening camera" dialog in both cases, although with a slightly different error report in the dialog:

I also tried whether installing libdc1394-avt-22_2.1.2.0-1amd64.deb makes a difference but it did not seem to.

Below the output from the error message boxes and from fview.log file.

Your help with this is greatly appreciated!

Best regards,
Swidbert

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With
"NON-AVT CONFIGURATION":
libcamiface 0.6.2-0ads2
python-motmot-camiface 0.5.4-0ads1
libdc1394-22 2.1.2-2

Error dialog box: "Error opening camera"
mega backend error (/build/buildd/libcamiface-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_mega.c 343): /build/buildd/libcamiface-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_dc1394.c (1077): libdc1394 err -12: RAW1394 failure

Error dialog box: "FView error"
An unknown error accessing the camera was encountered. The log file will have details. 

/home/swidi/fview.log

FView will now exit. The error was:
mega backend error (/build/buildd/libcamiface-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_mega.c 343): /build/buildd/libcamiface-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_dc1394.c (1077): libdc1394 err -12: RAW1394 failure

fview.log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/motmot/fview/fview.py", line 1612, in OnGetFramerate
    self.cam_cmd_queue.put( ('framerate query',None) )
AttributeError: 'App' object has no attribute 'cam_cmd_queue'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/motmot/fview/fview.py", line 1612, in OnGetFramerate
    self.cam_cmd_queue.put( ('framerate query',None) )
AttributeError: 'App' object has no attribute 'cam_cmd_queue'

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With
"AVT CONFIGURATION:"
libcamiface-avt 0.6.2-0ads1
camiface-avt 0.6.2-0ads1
python-motmot-camiface 0.5.4-0ads1
libdc1394-avt-22


Error dialog box: "Error opening camera"
mega backend error (/build/astraw-libcamiface-avt_0.6.2-0ads1-amd64-BuLaXF/libcamiface-avt-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_mega.c 343): /build/astraw-libcamiface-avt_0.6.2-0ads1-amd64-BuLaXF/libcamiface-avt-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_dc1394.c (1077): libdc1394 err -12: RAW


Error dialog box: "FView error"
An unknown error accessing the camera was encountered. The log file will have details. 

/home/swidi/fview.log

FView will now exit. The error was:
mega backend error (/build/astraw-libcamiface-avt_0.6.2-0ads1-amd64-BuLaXF/libcamiface-avt-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_mega.c 343): /build/astraw-libcamiface-avt_0.6.2-0ads1-amd64-BuLaXF/libcamiface-avt-0.6.2/src/cam_iface_dc1394.c (1077): libdc1394 err -12: RAW

fview.log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/motmot/fview/fview.py", line 1612, in OnGetFramerate
    self.cam_cmd_queue.put( ('framerate query',None) )
AttributeError: 'App' object has no attribute 'cam_cmd_queue'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/motmot/fview/fview.py", line 1612, in OnGetFramerate
    self.cam_cmd_queue.put( ('framerate query',None) )
AttributeError: 'App' object has no attribute 'cam_cmd_queue'

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