This affects Lucid as well. Since this is a long-term release it would be nice if we could figure out a way forward for users of firewire cameras (and Kino).
I have a Sony DSR-PDX10P. In Karmic I was able to use Kino to capture DV, it worked reasonably well. I upgraded to Lucid a couple of months ago and tried capturing video today. First I tried with the old firewire stack. $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:26:08 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf # Select the legacy firewire stack over the new CONFIG_FIREWIRE one. #blacklist ohci1394 #blacklist sbp2 #blacklist dv1394 #blacklist raw1394 #blacklist video1394 blacklist firewire-ohci blacklist firewire-sbp2 Probe in the raw1394 module since it doesn't happen automatically for some reason. $ modprobe raw1394 In dmesg I get [ 226.909428] ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized When I plug the camera in using the firewire interface and then turn it on I get messages like this spewing in dmesg: [ 241.256574] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long [ 241.260572] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long [ 241.264571] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long [ 241.268571] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long [ 241.269946] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long [ 241.272571] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long [ 241.273946] ohci1394: fw-host0: isochronous cycle too long The /dev/raw1394 file has the wrong ownerships as well, group owner is root, not video. I hacked /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules, guided by LP300239#4: KERNEL=="video1394-[0-9]*", NAME="video1394/%n", GROUP="video" +KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="video" and rebooted. Try again - plug in firewire cable, turn on camera. Same spew in dmesg. I started up Kino, and clicked on the 'Capture' icon. The interface prints two sets of messages, alternating every second or less; one about being unable to address /dev/raw1394 and the other about not being able to find an AV/C compliant camera. The spew in dmesg continues. Second test - I changed to the new stack as per https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:26:08 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf # comment these out to use the old stack blacklist ohci1394 blacklist sbp2 blacklist dv1394 blacklist raw1394 blacklist video1394 # comment these out to use the new stack #blacklist firewire-ohci #blacklist firewire-sbp2 Update initramfs $ sudo update-initramfs -k all -u Edit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules to force the group ownership SUBSYSTEM=="firewire", ATTR{units}=="*0x00a02d:0x010001*", GROUP="video" + SUBSYSTEM=="firewire", GROUP="video" Check library versions $ apt-show-versions |grep libdc1394 libdc1394-22/lucid uptodate 2.1.2-2 $ apt-show-versions |grep libraw libraw1394-11/lucid uptodate 2.0.4-1ubuntu2 $ sudo reboot $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:26:08 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux $ lsmod |grep fire firewire_ohci 21002 0 firewire_core 44510 1 firewire_ohci crc_itu_t 1371 1 firewire_core $ lsmod |grep 1394 $ So far so good. Plug in camera, turn it on. Pretty much the same result in dmesg: [ 67.171233] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 67.173285] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.179910] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.182534] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.191784] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.195784] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.198409] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.201034] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.203659] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 67.207659] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 70.768046] firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 2f) [ 72.178124] __ratelimit: 1294 callbacks suppressed [ 72.178128] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.182121] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.184746] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.193996] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.196621] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.200620] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.203245] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.205870] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.209870] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 72.212495] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 73.768147] firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 32) [ 76.768047] firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 33) [ 77.187585] __ratelimit: 1320 callbacks suppressed [ 77.187589] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.194208] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.196832] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.203457] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.206082] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.208706] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.212706] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.215331] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.217956] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 77.221956] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 78.904010] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 79.768045] firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 3a) [ 82.196671] __ratelimit: 1295 callbacks suppressed In /dev/ there exists /dev/fw0 $ ls -l /dev/fw0 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 0 2010-09-28 20:52 /dev/fw0 Try kino. Again it complains about /dev/raw1394 missing and is unable to capture. The firewire card is: $ sudo lspci -kvvv -s 04:00.0 04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 (8000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at dcdef800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Region 1: I/O ports at dc80 [size=128] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394 This card was working in Karmic, on the same host computer, but with the old firewire stack. The third attempt - install a Mainline Kernel (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/linux-image-2.6.36-999-generic_2.6.36-999.201009261124_i386.deb) and try again. Same results in dmesg: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.36-999-generic (r...@zinc) (gcc version 4.2.3 ( Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #201009261124 SMP Sun Sep 26 12:31:32 UTC 2010 ... [ 107.955237] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 107.958448] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.958786] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 107.961072] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.961410] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 107.965072] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.967696] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.976947] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.983571] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.986196] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.990196] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.992820] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 107.995445] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.966227] irq_handler: 1311 callbacks suppressed [ 112.966231] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.972852] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.975474] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.979475] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.982099] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.984724] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.991349] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.993973] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long [ 112.996599] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle too long ** Tags added: lucid ** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => New -- Unable to transfer digital video content from SONY camcorder to PC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550010 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
