It appears that Natty removed most of the raw 1394 support in favor of firewire_core. This broke most dv capture setups in existence. Someone needs to readd raw1394 and ohci1394 kernel modules to ubuntu natty. please tell your security guys who are humping firewire_core to stop being retarded.

[Matt Joyce]

I am using a sony dfw v500 firewire camera. this is like a 10 year old defacto standard in firewire capture... it's the 3com 3c905 of firewire cameras.

Basically firewire_core is seeing it... and creating a /dev/fw1 for it... but that's pretty much useless everywhere for everything since nothing is written to use firewire_core. The only people using firewire_core are people who don't use firewire.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: kino 1.3.4-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 24 17:14:45 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kino
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-08 (16 days ago)

[Stefan Richter (stefan-r-ubz)]

> Basically firewire_core is seeing it... and creating a /dev/fw1 for it...
> but that's pretty much useless everywhere for everything since nothing
> is written to use firewire_core.

libraw1394 is written to use it. Kino uses libraw1394; it does not access the kernel directly.

Please describe in what way DV capture is broken.

Also please attach the output of dmesg that contains messages from firewire.ohci and firewire-core
  - from when the OHCI-1394 host controller is initialized,
  - from when the camcorder is plugged in/ switched on,
  - from when Kino is started.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.