Re: Can't get kino or dvgrab to work

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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)

works for me on my hp6700 laptop:

02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)


juser@dhcp79:~/temp$ dvgrab
Found AV/C device with GUID 0x002011010f00254c
Capture Started
^C"dvgrab-001.dv":     8.70 MiB 76 frames timecode 14:17:12.12 date
2067.02.15 22:26:25


dmesg

[312948.614916] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long
[312948.930101] ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000
compliant, resetting...
[312949.250223] ieee1394: Speed probe of node 0-00:1023 yields S100
[312949.251107] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[002011010f00254c]
[312949.251219] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
[312949.294021] ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

juser@dhcp79:~$ uname -a
Linux dhcp79 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC
2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

juser@dhcp79:~/temp$ ls -l /dev/raw1394
crw-rw---- 1 root video 171, 0 2009-10-21 13:39 /dev/raw1394
juser@dhcp79:~/temp$ groups
juser adm dialout cdrom audio video plugdev lpadmin admin

-- 
Carl K

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