Re: Can't get kino or dvgrab to work

This is a little OT, but maybe tangentially relevant: I have a dvgrab
problem that has plagued me since acquiring this Dell (Inspiron 1521)
laptop. I get nothing at all from the firewire port using Ubuntu linux
(8.04) and dvgrab.

is there any way to test the port to see if it is working?
lspci lists the hardware as

 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev
05)

and everything seems right, there's just no evidence of any actual
connection; this camera worked perfectly using Mandriva 2007 with

01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 04)

but it also does not work with a Toshiba DVD-recorder bought at wal-mart; a
friend said it might be because my Sony TRV-230 might have an 'older'
standard of FireWire that is invisible to modern hardware.

is there any way I can test this at a low level?  is there any (free)
standalone windows app that I might use to see if this is a faulty firewire
port or just an issue of Linux driver compatibility?  I've been dumping my
digital videos via S-Video for the past several years and I'd really love to
re-dub some of these tapes direct to digital.

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