[Gllug] Firewire & camera problems on Suse 8.2

John Hearns jhearns at freesolutions.net
Sat Apr 26 09:39:38 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 17:40, Frank Kelly wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've just fitted a Belkin firewire card (Texas instruments circuitry, Sony 
> i-Link tech) to my home-built box.  I've also upgraded from Suse Professional 
> 8.0 to 8.2.  My camera is a new Sony Handycam DCR-TRV355-E.  The camera has a 
> firewire port, USB port and USB streaming.
> 
> PCI Infocentre shows the firewire card, as does /proc/bus/ieee1394 but 
> Mainactor capture says 'the device may be busy or the program does not have 
> root rights at startup'.  

When working with firewire/IEEE1394 the gscanbus utility is very useful.
http://gscanbus.berlios.de/



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