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Blackmagic cards

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h4. Driver installation

Blackmagic has partial support for Linux. To install their driver you should download the latest one on:
[[http://blackmagic-design.com/support/]]

Choose Linux, your card series and your Model and press Search. Download the latest Desktop Video for Linux.
To install it:

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dpkg -i <name_of_driver_package.deb>
modprobe blackmagic
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There is a full guide on how to install the driver and other information on:
[[http://blackmagic-design.com/media/3397979/Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Linux_9.2.txt]]


h5. Check if the driver and the card are loaded and ready

Run on a terminal:

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lspci | grep Blackmagic
lsmod | grep blackmagic
ls dev/blackmagic/*
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You will receive messages like:
_02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Blackmagic Design Device a11b_
_blackmagic 2082944 1_
/dev/blackmagic/card0

h5. UDEV rules
You may want to change the UDEV rule on:
/etc/udev/rules.d/20-blackmagic.rules

h4. Input configuration