MultiCam Installation Guide
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Part VIII. MultiCam Installation Guide
1. Hardware
requirements
Following features are recommended to operate MultiCam :
CPU
Pentium III Class or above
System memory
Minimum 128 MB
Hard disk drive
Minimum 150 MB free
2. Linux
installation
2.1. Run-time
software
requirements
MultiCam and EureCards can be operated on the following Linux operating systems.
OS version
Additional information
RedHat 7.3
Kernel 2.4.18-3
RedHat 8.0
Kernel 2.4.18-14
Refer to the release notes for updated information about OS and supported boards.
2.2. Development
software
requirements
MultiCam comes with documentation, development tools and sample programs.
The documentation is provided in standard CHM format. It is better viewed using xchm.
In addition, some information may be provided as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. To view these files it is required to use an
appropriate PDF file viewer. For example: xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 (or later).
The development tools are C or C++ based. Thus all popular development environments can be used to develop
applications using EureCards and MultiCam.
Sample programs are provided for various development environments.
2.3. Installation
instructions
Switch on your computer and start Linux.
Place Euresys CD-ROM in the drive and mount it.
Copy
multicam-
n.n
.tar.gz
on hard disk drive where
n.n
is the release number
of MultiCam.
For example, using release 4.5 of MultiCam, copy
multicam-4.5.tar.gz
.
Extract this archive:
# tar -xzvf multicam-
n.n
.tar.gz
Go in directory multicam:
# cd multicam-
n.n
Log in as root.
Execute the installation script:
# ./install
Check for proper installation: connect a camera to the Picolo board and run
eVisionStudio
.
