Hi i have a firewire card and a sony cam now sony cams are a little more
complicated cause they use different encoding (i think) but i got them
working now you need to install libraw and i recommend gscanbus to have an
eye on your firewire filesystems etc libraw is available from the rpms dir on
the mandrake ftp servers.
But i have to say that they didnt really work for me rather install from tar !
here are some links :
http://ronald.bitfreak.net/
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
if you hav ethe tars of libraw they will compile into /usr/local you might
get some problems with your paths (root doesnt have /usr/local in the path
for some reason)
here are quick instrucktions how to get libraw and your raw device working if
youre impatient but i recommend reading through the links that i gave you
cause you have to be prepared for some manuall changes and hacks.
gscanbus http://www.ivistar.de/0500opensource.php3?lang=en is a really nice
prog where you can control the devices on your firewire ports install that
one from tar it will also compile into /usr/local so it will work fine
together with the libraw tar.
here quick instructions for libraw without this nothing will work
Compile libraw1394:
cd /where/you/downloaded/libraw1394
tar xvfz libraw1394_0.9.0.tar.gz
cd libraw1394-0.9.0
./configure
make
make install
Create the raw device (/dev/raw1394):
make dev
Reboot:
shutdown -r now
After the system reboots, logon and load the modules:
modprobe ohci1394
modprobe raw1394
Module dependencies should ensure that the ieee1394 subsytem module installs
automatically. If you receive errors about unresolved symbols, then try the
following:
insmod ieee1394
insmod ohci1394M
insmod raw1394
if it works nicely you can add
modprobe ohci1394
modprobe raw1394
to your /etc/rc.local file so they will load at each boot
If you decide to use the rpms from mandrake and if you have success with that
tell me how you did it =) with me the rpm version didnt make the device if i
remember right and the modules should be loaded manually the rpm installed
but didnt create the device and didnt load the modules i dont know why so i
gave up and installed the tar (or did i install the tar first and create the
device manually ? i dont remember =))
Anyway happy hacking and dont forget to tell about your sucess this is a
rather new unwritten chapter of mandrake hacking =) .
Cheers
On Saturday 21 July 2001 20:30, =/\\= Majki =/\\= wrote:
> Hi!
> I have miniDV digital camera Panasonic NV-DS15. I'd like to download film
> or photos to computer. Camera has i-link FireWire connector, and I have
> FireWire controller. In Windows Me I can just plug cable to controller,
> switch on camera, and Windows automatically shows camera in My Computer and
> I can take photo from camera. I have also program to editing films
> downloaded from camera, this program were included in FireWire Controller.
> Is it possible to do the same in Linux ?
>
> Mikolaj
