Comment 57 for bug 6290

Robert Petersen wrote:
> I am running Ubunto 9.10, and Kino 1.3.3
[...]
> the biggest problem is actually that I have to plugin the camera to
> use the program. So when i have copied all the scenes to the computer,
> you can work and edit the scenes without having the camera installed.
> But when you want to export it to example mpeg or what ever, you cant
> the following error "Error setting the IEEE 1394 port (host adaptor)"

This is a different bug. You could report it separately in a new bug entry. But before that, please test the current version of Kino first (version 1.3.4), which appears to be available as a package now. (I saw that Debian packaged it, hence I guess it is also available on Ubuntu. I don't have Debian or Ubuntu myself.)

> So the fact that I went from windows to Linux was the free software,
> but as I can see here, this problem has been there for around 4 years
> now!!!!!!

Free software means, among else, that distributors and/or users can fix problems themselves if they have the necessary knowledge or experience. And indeed, the /dev/raw1394 permissions problem
   - does not exist on several other distributions than Ubuntu,
   - can be fixed by Ubuntu users by adding a local udev rule (there is guidance somewhere on the Ubuntu wiki (help.ubuntu.com) as well as on the upstream wiki, see comment 55),
   - is going to be fixed in Ubuntu as well in a future release, when Ubuntu fully switches to newer kernel drivers which implement a superior device access concept and thus address the security concerns that were brought up by Ubuntu package maintainers and many others.
On the other hand, free software does _not_ mean that everything works immediately or is being fixed for you, at no cost, in a matter of hours.