issue with decklinkcard after upgrading to resolve 9beta on linux

[Prathvish Hegde]

we have the decktop video 9…. which came with the resolve9 package installed and the nvidia drivers as mentioned in the text file in resolve9 package installed.

prathvish hegde
colorist

[Rohit Gupta]

Did you update the firmware on the card, and did you reboot after that?

[Prathvish Hegde]

how do u do that i tried by typing the command blackmagicfirmwareupdater update as in the text file attached but northing happend

prathvish hegde
colorist

[Andrew Rice]

I had a similar issue, and submitted it to BMD.

I use Media Composer and was on Desktop Video 9.5.3. I upgraded to Resolve 9 Lite and could not get any in Avid Media Composer either. I tried the new drive 6.1 and the same thing was happening.

I uninstalled 6.1 and reinstalled 9.5.3 and then I had output in MC again. But if I open Resolve, with either driver, then my output in BOTH fails.

I am on OSX 10.7.4

Andrew Rice
Kenai Productions
http://www.kenaiproductions.com

[Dwaine Maggart]

The Linux firmware updater command IS case sensitive. You have to type it like the readme shows:

BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater update

Did you type it that way? If not, try it, and hopefully it will update the firmware and solve the problem.

It’s also important that you do the “sudo su -” first, as described.

Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support

[Prathvish Hegde]

hi dwaine,

tried the same command but northing seems to load.

we have followed all the procedure as in the text file

prathvish hegde
colorist

[Prathvish Hegde]

hi guys,

any solutions???? i was asked by blackmagic engineer to check my decklink card in another system the decklink card working fine in my macresolve but if i put it back in the resolve i get the same error failed to initialize decklink drivers. tried downgrading decklink software as well as resolve to 8.2 but the problem persists.

any solutions ????
blackmagic Singapore is down for a day(national day) and we have a job tommorow. would be greatful if i would be able to get some help today .
thanks in advance

prathvish hegde
colorist

[Dwaine Maggart]

I just tried the entire process on our Linux system using the V9b2 code just released. There is a problem with the readme that may be causing your issue.

Step 3 of the “Update instructions for updating the DeckLink driver” has an error. It should read:

3. rpm -qa | grep desktopvideo | xargs rpm -e (Uninstall old RPM)

If this step was not done correctly, it would probably cause step 4 to fail.

So on step 3, replace DeckLink with desktopvideo (note it is ALL lowercaase) and run through the procedure again. Hopefully it will work better. Please let us know.

Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support

[Prathvish Hegde]

thankyou all

we sorted it yesterday

it was sorted by activating the decklink card

prathvish hegde
colorist

[Andrew Rice]

Well, All is Good Now. Although I am still running Desktop Video 9.5.3. I am not sure what fixed it, but a lot has happened since the issue was first posted.

I have upgraded to OSX 10.8, and to MC 6.0.3

Andrew Rice
Kenai Productions
http://www.kenaiproductions.com