[Bug 6290] Re: DV capture over Firewire is broken (no rights for /dev/raw1394)

[Stefan Richter]

I suspect they will fix it in a future Ubuntu release by replacing the
kernel drivers ohci1394 + ieee1394 + raw1394 by the kernel drivers
firewire-ohci + firewire-core.  Presently, those newer drivers are
already shipped in Ubuntu's kernel packages in parallel with the older
drivers.  The older ones are the default and the newer ones can be
enabled by editing a respective system configuration file (kernel module
blacklist, http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
#How_to_suppress_auto-loading) as administrator.

Well, the other possible workaround on current Ubuntu also requires
editing or creating a system configuration file (udev rule file for
raw1394,
http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#How_to_get_access_to_raw1394_as_unprivileged_user.3F).
I doubt that the Ubuntu udev maintainer will suddenly reconsider his
preference and re-introduce such a raw1394 rule, therefore expect to
have to wait for a next release (Lucid perhaps?) to get this bug fixed
by a switch to firewire-core as default kernel driver.

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DV capture over Firewire is broken (no rights for /dev/raw1394)
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