Comment 6 for bug 576951

Hi,

Sorry for not having answer earlier. I didn't yet find the time to double
check, but if I remember correctly, the bug happens after having given rw
permissions on /dev/raw1394.

Thanks,
Yaakov

2010/7/7 Ketil Malde <email address hidden>

> I was going to file a bug against dvgrab's rather poor error message
> ("no camera exists", when it really should be "permission denied"). I'm
> not sure if this bug is already doing that, the description seems very
> unclear. Do you still get "no camera exists", even after making sure
> you have rw perms on /dev/raw1394?
>
> --
> dvgrab capture failure (miniDV)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576951
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> Status in Libdc1394 - Programming interface for IEEE 1394 based cameras:
> New
> Status in “dvgrab” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: dvgrab
>
> $ dvgrab -a tape-
> Error: no camera exists
>
> Solved by doing:
> $ sudo chmod -v a+rw /dev/*1394
>
> $ dvgrab -a tape-
> Error: no camera exists
>
> while the camcorder is well connected.
> This issue is not new, had the same with Kubuntu 9.10. The same hardware
> (PC and camcorder) was working fine in previous version of Kubuntu (I don't
> remember which one exactly, but it used to work).
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: dvgrab 3.5-1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri May 7 14:54:33 2010
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: dvgrab
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