KesCom PG104

The KesCom PG104 is similar to the Pico2000, but uses an Techwell TW6805A chip.

Installation

To use this capture card you need to compile the driver. For Ubuntu Server 12.04.03 LTS with 3.8 kernel the source can be found at [[1]].

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install build-essential
mkdir techwell
cd techwell
git clone git://gitorious.org/tw68/smokeyjoness-tw68-v2.git
cd smokeyjoness-tw68-v2
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe tw68

After compiling and "loading" the tw68 modules, you need to check that the modules are actually loaded (lsmod|grep tw). You should have the following output:

~$ lsmod |grep tw
tw68                   44633  2 
videodev               86588  3 tw68
videobuf_dma_sg        18786  1 tw68
videobuf_core          25409  2 tw68,videobuf_dma_sg
btcx_risc              13400  1 tw68

Issuing the dmesg command, you should see a "video devices" found, labeled /dev/video0. This video device has channels from 0 to 3 for the 4 inputs.