Re: Firewire quits

On Mar 13 Reid wrote:
> I'm running Kino 1.3.4 on Ubuntu 10.10 and am having trouble importing
> DV from my camcorder using firewire.  
> 
> My Panasonic camcorder is recognized and the capture starts but then
> quits after a minute or two. Also, after that the camcorder is no longer
> recognized.  Like it's forgotten.  Computer needs to be rebooted and
> then is seen again.

Plugging it out and in again does not help either?

> I have looked around the 'Net and seen comments from uses that say to
> start Kino as root,

Never run application programs as root, it's too dangerous.

> and to use the pads command to start Kino, but it
> doesn't seem to make any difference with this issue, though that has
> helped the sound recording issue.  It's odd that his just popped up
> because everything was working fine two months ago.  Or so I thought.  
> 
> Happy to provide added spec info if needed.

The output of "lspci -nn" would be good, also the output of "dmesg" from a
session in which you captured something and connection breaks up as you
described.
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Stefan Richter
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