Re: need kino. or a substitute that can work with a sony hi-8 metal720 by handicam.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 5:47 PM Klaus Singvogel
<deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> wrote:
>
> gene heskett wrote:
> > Installed all that I *think* about 30 pkgs, dmesg says new device fw1, and
> > it exists now in /dev/, but VLC can't open device, see logs but other than
> > the plug in report, no connection.
>
> The advice of Jeffrey Walton to change the permission would be my first help too.
>
> fw1 indicates to be a FireWire device, so I'm out; never possessed one.
>
> But I stumble about the uncommon naming: usually it's fw0, not fw1.
> Do you have a second FireWire device already plugged in, or can the naming somehow else be explained (by slot number)?
> If not, I would suggest a reboot of the machine, because I assume a jam in the kernel then.
>
> But as said, no experience here.
>
> Maybe someone else can step in?
It didn't occur to me fw was firewire. According to this old Ubuntu
page, there is a firewire group.[1] I can't find a similar Debian wiki
page.
If Gene is already in the firewire group, then I would look at udev
rules. udev may be setting permissions to root:root instead of
root:firewire.
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FireWire/oldPages/Firewire01
Jeff
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