On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 14:52, Auke Jan Kroon wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Mandrake 10.0 on my aunt's computer (can be upgraded to 10.1 > if necessary) and she bought a Sharp VL-Z1S video camera with > DV/IEEE1394/Firewire output. I don't have a video camera, so my > knowledge about this is close to zero. Can anyone tell me which (brand > and type of) Firewire card she should buy to connect the camera to the > PC? I cannot find anything on the hardware compatibility list. > > In addition, can anyone point me to documentation about how to get it to > work? > > Thanks, > > > AJ
I don't know too much about this but my experience for what it's worth is :- I have a panasonic DV camera and I plug it into the firewire port on my Audigy sound card. I use Kino to handle the video, to make it work I had to add raw1394, dv1394 and video1394 to /etc/modprobe.preload. This worked fine on 10.0 but when I first installed 10.1 udev did not make device node /dev/raw1394 and I had to do it manually, however there has since been an update to udev which fixes this. You may need to change the permissions for /dev/raw1394 so that a user can access it, tip if so add /dev/raw1394 to the <camera> line in /etc/security/console.perms. HTH Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland
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