Comment 37 for bug 6290

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Stefan Richter (stefan-r-ubz) wrote : Re: use /dev/video1394, not /dev/raw1394

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Reopening this bug.
>
> In Ubuntu 8.10 (Alpha 6) importing dv over firewire does not "just work" with Kino 1.3.0
>
> I'm back at the familiar message: "WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to > read/write /dev/raw1394
>
> My first guess is that this is because someone forgot to set the flag needed during the build
> to enable support for /dev/video1394 which is not enabled by default...

No, Kino requires /dev/raw1394. Check with "lsmod" that the raw1394 and the ohci1394 drivers are loaded, and check the file permissions (or access control list) of /dev/raw1394.

PS: As mentioned in my previous comment, alternative kernel drivers are in development which allow to implement a more flexible security policy, but I suppose these drivers are not enabled in Ubuntu 8.10 --- and they probably shouldn't because of immaturity. (The wiki which I mentioned in the other comment is now located at http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/.)