I used to transfer video by firewire (a.k.a. ieee1394, or i-link) with Ubuntu 12.04.
Sometimes from the command line with dvgrab and sometimes with Kino.
I haven't been able to make it work on 14.04 yet.
Any help/suggestions are really welcomed!
dvgrab responds with: Error: no camera exists
Kino says on the status bar: WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write/dev/raw1394
I followed these suggestions which worked for me with Ubuntu 12.04:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FireWire/DigitalVideo
sudo apt-get install dvgrab kino
sudo ln /dev/fw0 /dev/raw1394
sudo chmod 664 /dev/raw1394
I don't see the raw1394 module loaded, but I see the firewire-ohci and firewire core. I read that that is expected since the firewire-... modules replaced the raw1394 module, but I don't know enough about this to be sure.
Here is some more info:
In Synaptic Package Manager, I can see these installed: libavc1394-0 libraw1394-11 libdc1394-22
$ lsmod |grep firewire
firewire_ohci 40409 0
firewire_core 68769 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12707 1 firewire_core
$ more /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
$ lsmod |grep 1394
$
$ sudo modprobe raw1394
modprobe: FATAL: Module raw1394 not found.
I then edited the blacklist-firewire.conf file to comment out ohci1394 and raw1394, and also edited /dev/modules adding ohci1394 and raw1394 at the end of the file in individual lines. Then rebooted. But this didn't help. One thing I notice is that the /dev/raw1394 had disappeared, so I recreated it and tried dvgrab and kino again with no luck.
To finish, I re-edited the two files to restore the version before my edits.
Again, any suggestion/comment/thoughts are very welcomed!
Today 4/2/2015, I kept trying a few things but I cannot make it work yet.
Here is what I tried:
Commented out all lines in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf
Edited /etc/modules adding a line with: ohci1394, and a line with: raw1394
From Synaptic, reinstalled libraw1394-11 and installed libraw1394-11-dbg libraw1394-doc libraw1394-dev libraw1394-tools
Rebooted
$sudo ln /dev/fw0 /dev/raw1394 (because it went away after reboot)
$sudo chmod 664 /dev/raw1394
Tried kino and dvgrab, but I got the same errors.
From Synaptic, searched for: 1394, and installed all that were not already installed except libconvert-ytext-perl: libavc1394-tools libavc1394-dev libdc1394-22-doc libdc1394-utils libdc1394-22-dbg libdc1394-22-dev coriander libiec61883-dev dvsource
Rebooted
$sudo ln /dev/fw0 /dev/raw1394 (because it went away after reboot ... again)
$sudo chmod 664 /dev/raw1394
Tried kino and dvgrab, but I got the same errors.
$sudo lsmod |grep 1394
$
$sudo modprobe raw1394
modprobe: FATAL: Module raw1394 not found.
$dvgrab
Error: no camera exists
Opening Kino and selecting Capture still brings this message: WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394!
