[PlanetCCRMA] How do I get DV to work with Planet kernel?

Jim Ruxton cinetron@passport.ca
Tue Oct 22 15:18:01 2002


Thanks a lot Fernando. This worked great. I can capture with Kino now. 
Dropping some frames but I'll figure that out eventually. Still trying 
to get Cinelerra to capture. Thanks again for making things so easy.
Jim

>You do not need to reconfigure or rebuild the kernel at all, it already
>has the modules necessary to handle ieee1394 (at least for ohci compliant
>chipsets). You will need to create two devices in /dev
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>  mknod /dev/video1394 c 172 0
>  mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
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>(and of course make sure that the user who is going to deal with them has 
>access to both devices)
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>Then load the kernel modules that deal with ieee1394:
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>  /sbin/modprobe raw1394
>  /sbin/modprobe ohci1394
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>You should see messages in /var/log/messages when the chipset is
>recognized by the drivers. After that it is just a matter of connecting
>the camcorder (more messages should appear in /var/log/messages) and
>firing up, let's say, kino. Capture should work.
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>Hopefully I'm not forgetting something crucial.
>-- Fernando
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