Awesome!!!!!   Sandi and I have been working on getting our Sony TRV-120 (Digital 8) camcorder to work under Linux.   Haven't gotten it to work yet.  Linux recognises my Firewire card and my camcorder, but I get an error when I try to capture DV.  We keep getting this error: "raw1394 - couldn't get card info: Invalid argument".  Anyone have an idea what this means?  I don't know what Firewire card I have (it came with BeOS and captures fine with our camera on BeOS).  Linux seems to recognize it:

Jul 15 14:30:07 mdk kernel: ieee1394: registered ohci1394 driver, initializing now
Jul 15 14:30:07 mdk kernel: ohci1394: looking for Ohci1394 cards
Jul 15 14:30:07 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: remapped memory spaces reg 0xd0b20000
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: allocated interrupt 9
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: soft reset finished
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: max packet size = 2048 bytes
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: 4 iso receive contexts available
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: 8 iso transmit contexts available
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=0 initialized
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=1 initialized
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=0 initialized
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=1 initialized
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=2 initialized
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: resetting bus on request
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ieee1394: detected 1 ohci1394 adapter 
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: PhyControl: 0000017F
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: SelfID process finished (phyid 0, not root)
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: selfid packet 0x807f845a rcvd
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: This node self-id is 0x807f845a
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: selfid packet 0x817f08c0 rcvd
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: calling self-id complete
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ieee1394: GUID request sent to node 1
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: Got phy packet ctx=0 ... discarded
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: Bus reset
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: PhyControl: 0000017F
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: SelfID process finished (phyid 0, not root)
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: selfid packet 0x806c8458 rcvd
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: This node self-id is 0x806c8458
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: selfid packet 0x816c08c2 rcvd
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: calling self-id complete
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ieee1394: GUID request sent to node 1
Jul 15 14:30:08 mdk kernel: ohci1394_0: Got phy packet ctx=0 ... discarded
Jul 15 14:31:45 mdk kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

I have found several people with the same error in dvgrab, but no one has given a solution.  What Firewire board do you have?  Maybe I should get a new board and try that.

Dusty

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> Linux Users!!,
> 
>     Check it out!! I finally got my DV Camera (Sony Digital HandyCam) to 
> work with the Linux Firewire stuff. Turns out I had a card that doesn't 
> work for DV on any platform. Anyhow, I have been taping, dumping, 
> editing, and compressing to MPEG for about one week now. It ROCKS!!!! 
> I'll post back soon with a link to see one of my finished products. With 
> the Linux apps, I can even do time-lapse!!!
> 
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