Comment 35 for bug 6290
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| Dan Dennedy (dan-dennedy) wrote Re: use /dev/video1394, not /dev/raw1394 | #35 |
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Kino has not supported video1394 for years. You are meaning dv1394 when you write "video1394." Also, why do you think I did not enable that option by default? The answer is that it imposes major usability issues.
The new firewire subsystem and libraw1394 2.0 have resolved the security issue with using /dev/raw1394. Now, read/write permissions can be enabled on a per node/device basis. All that is left to do is to configure udev to determine when a new node is a camera and then set the group and permissions on /dev/fwN accordingly. I believe there is still a little less stability in firewire than ieee1394 on some devices, but perhaps better in others. It is difficult to weigh that trade-off. Maybe Stefan Richter has more of a gauge of that.
I do not know the state of Ubuntu 8.10 alpha. Is the kernel using firewire or ieee1394? On your system, is raw1394 loaded and does /dev/raw1394 exist when you plug in your camera?