Hi, I have a digital video camera with a firewire port, and my laptop is equiped with one, as well. The port of the laptop is supported under Linux (we discussed this one about 8-9 months ago on list), and the modules load properly.
I tried to use dvgrab to capture a movie I made, but had no success. I did take care to first load the raw1394 module (otherwise dvgrab issues error messages), and started dvgrab as root (since root wons the requisite device file), but dvgrab remains silent. I played with the options, including options suggested by the man page, to no avail. Since I recall that in the RH7.3 days I managed to capture some video with dvgrab and the very same hardware, I decided to test the hardware using my dedicated hardware testing platform (windoze millenium), and everything worked (except for the software, which, since it uses too many cpu cycles for the gui and displaying the image as it records, could not record all frames on disk... Millenium headache. Wait, it is Sony software supposedly made for that laptop, and it finds the machine it was supposedly tweaked for too slow?!). So now, why doesn't dvgrab work? If it doesn't work, why doesn't it complain using some error message? Ergo, it theoretically works, but something is wrong. Help. BTW, I alreadyt tried fiddling with the cables. I am now using RH8.0. Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]