Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:21:48 +0000

I communicated offline with Matt yesterday.

At the APS we are running the Andor Neo with RHEL6 kernel 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.  Matt is using 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64.

So both are 2.6.32, only differing slightly.  We also were previously running an older build of RHEL6, though I am not sure exactly which kernel number.

I suspect the problem is not the kernel version, but perhaps a conflict with another device or IRQ as Phil suggests.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phillip Sorensen
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 8:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Andor SDK3 Zyla

Hello,

We use the Neo on SL6 (a RHEL rebuild).  We have not had problems with 
the software end, but we have had some issues with the CameraLink card 
under Linux.  It seems to work in some slots, but not others.  I think 
the drivers is sensitive to something like a shared IRQ.

Phil Sorensen
CHESS

On 2/3/2014 2:22 PM, Pearson, Matthew R. wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> We have a Andor Zyla camera, that we plan to control via the existing areaDetector driver for the Andor SDK3 library. However, we're finding that the SDK3 doesn't work on 64-bit RHEL6 (Kernel 2.6.32). I've not had the chance to test the EPICS support yet, as this is purely an Andor issue - their example programs fail to run correctly.
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> So I'm just wondering if anyone else has an Andor sCMOS camera, that uses SDK3, and has it working under Linux. If so, please could you let us know the distribution and kernel version number?
>
> The camera example programs work on Windows 7 64-bit. So if we can't get it working on Linux that will be our fall back solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
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> Data Acquisition and Control Engineer
> Spallation Neutron Source
> Oak Ridge National Lab
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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