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kino package

Can't enable firewire

Bug #792464 reported by Tore Frøynes Bjerkholt
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kino

I can't seem to enable Firewire to record from my DV camera by following the explanations on: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firewire

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: kino 1.3.4-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 3 19:21:14 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kino
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-26 (8 days ago)

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Tore Frøynes Bjerkholt (tore-bjerkholt) wrote :
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Tore Frøynes Bjerkholt (tore-bjerkholt) wrote :

Oh. And the error message I get from Kino is:
"raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394!"

When I look for a kernel module for 1394, there doesn't seem to be enabled one.

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Stefan Richter (stefan-r-ubz) wrote :

The help.ubuntu.com page and the Kino message are a bit outdated. With newer kernels, the software stack looks like this:
<hardware> -- firewire-ohci (kernel driver) -- firewire-core (kernel driver) -- libraw1394 -- Kino

Please post the following information:

lspci -nn | grep 1394

grep firewire /proc/interrupts

ls -l /dev/fw*

dmesg

Run the latter two commands half a minute or so after you plugged in/ switched on the camcorder.

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James Dupin (james.dupin) wrote :

uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.35-31-generic-pae #63-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 28 20:48:50 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
with a belkin firewire express card

lspci -nn | grep 1394
05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments XIO2200(A) IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8235] (rev 01)

grep firewire /proc/interrupts
 18: 15 12 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, firewire_ohci

crw-rw---- 1 root video 251, 0 2011-12-21 19:35 /dev/fw0

the fact that fw0 has group video:rw is coming from a test I just made by adding a rule in udev. wasn't working either before anyway.

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jlms (jjllmmss) wrote :

There clearly is some kind of permissions problem.

I ran as root and I can capture video (after linking /dev/raw1394 to /dev/fw0 )

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in kino (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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