Re: Error: no camera exists - SOLVED?
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From: Carl K. <ca...@pe...> - 2015-10-19 04:28:12
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:14 PM, David <da...@ke...> wrote: > Hi > > I've discovered the problem. The motherboard has an on-board firewire of > which I was unaware. If I plug into the motherboard everything works as > advertised. It seems that the PCI board is being ignored. Since I only > have one firewire device I'm not sure what would happen if I plug a > second device into the card. Would it get recognised? If I understand your question, No. it sounds like a faulty card, or it isn't seated, or something of bad hardware. pull it out, run lspci >lspci.1.txt add it back, lspci >lspci.2.txt diff lspci.1.txtlspci.2.txt If you don't see a new entry... um... you don't have a card ;) if you do see a 2nd firewire card, you should see /dev/fw0 /dev/fw1 and when you plug in your dv camera to either card: /dev/fw2 > > I can't find any way to turn off the on-board firewire to try this. > > Meantime, thanks for your encouragement and help. > > On 13/10/15 01:09, Stefan Richter wrote: >> On Oct 12 David wrote: >>> On 12/10/15 17:35, Stefan Richter wrote: >>>> On Oct 12 David wrote: >>>>> david@david:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z95_firewire.rules >>>>> KERNEL=="dv1394*|video1394*|raw1394*|fw[0-9]*", GROUP="video" >>>>> SUBSYSTEM=="firewire", ATTR{vendor_name}=="Linux Firewire", GROUP="video" >>>>> SUBSYSTEM=="firewire", GROUP="video" >>>> This is unnecessary; stock udev already contains proper rules for almost >>>> all FireWire applications, including (H)DV capture. >>> I removed this file. Should there be a rule for firewire in /etc/udev? >>> david@david:/etc/udev$ grep -ri firewire . >>> david@david:/etc/udev$ <nothing> >> $ grep -r firewire /lib/udev/ >> should turn up a few hits. >> >> I am following up on the rest later. > > -- > David McQuire > 0418 310312 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > mailing list Lin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux1394-user -- Carl K |