Dvgrab: Error: no camera exists

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to capture DV video with dvgrab, but it gives me the error "Error: no camera exists"
I've looked around a lot on the interwebs and tried many things, but no avail
- it worked on Gentoo so the hardware is fine
- i also tried as root, same shit
- tried plugging in and out the FW cable also doesn't help.  tried several ports as well.
* arch linux i686 (all latest packages from core/testing)
* canopus advc110
* 6pin firewire cable
* some VIA-based firewire pci card.
[dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch orig]$ lsmod | grep 1394
video1394 15740 0
dv1394 18428 0
ohci1394 30196 2 video1394,dv1394
raw1394 25724 0
ieee1394 85324 4 video1394,dv1394,ohci1394,raw1394
[dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch orig]$ ls -alh /dev/*1394*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 171, 0 2009-09-07 22:42 /dev/raw1394
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 172, 0 2009-09-09 20:50 /dev/video1394
/dev/dv1394:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-09-09 20:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 5.6K 2009-09-09 20:51 ..
crw-rw---- 1 root video 171, 32 2009-09-09 20:51 0
[dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch orig]$ groups
wheel bitlbee video users
[dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch orig]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02)
00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corporation 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
02:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80331 [Lindsay] I/O processor (PCI-X Bridge) (rev 07)
03:0e.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID (rev 07)
04:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev ff)
04:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
04:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
dmesg (full at http://sprunge.us/ejBh)
[dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch orig]$ dmesg | grep 1394
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
ohci1394 0000:04:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ...
ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ...
ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ...
ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ...
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 165.165 (PCI): IRQ=[21] MMIO=[f1000000-f10007ff] Max Packet=[65536] IR/IT contexts=[32/32]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Serial EEPROM has suspicious values, attempting to set max_packet_size to 512 bytes

Answer 1

Hi,
I have a prablem with firewire too.
Dvgrab finds my caremra at firewire but when I start recording from one dvgrab has problems.
dvgrab /home/Data/Video/Magdalenka/m1
Found AV/C device with GUID 0x08004601040a7d03
Waiting for DV...
Capture Started
"/home/Data/Video/Magdalenka/m1001.dv": damaged frame near: timecode 00:00:00.24 date 2067.02.15 22:26:25
This means that there were missing or invalid FireWire packets.
^C"/home/Data/Video/Magdalenka/m1001.dv":     3.16 MiB 23 frames timecode 00:00:00.24 date 2067.02.15 22:26:25
Capture Stopped
Warning: 1 damaged frames.
lsmod:
lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   58757  2
ext2                   62873  1
snd_seq_dummy           1439  0
firewire_ohci          23601  0
snd_seq_oss            29023  0
firewire_core          43019  1 firewire_ohci
snd_seq_midi_event      5316  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_intel8x0           26575  1
ohci_hcd               21485  0
crc_itu_t               1273  1 firewire_core
nvidia               8024326  24
snd_seq                50558  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5181  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_ac97_codec        108885  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            39011  0
snd_mixer_oss          17299  1 snd_pcm_oss
ac97_bus                1150  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                70222  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
ppdev                   5910  0
snd_timer              18799  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    57408  11 snd_seq_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
i2c_nforce2             5520  0
lp                      8684  0
edac_core              34056  0
psmouse                57028  0
soundcore               6095  1 snd
parport_pc             31260  1
ehci_hcd               35082  0
shpchp                 31012  0
k8temp                  3379  0
evdev                   8825  8
snd_page_alloc          7033  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
sg                     25275  0
forcedeth              52476  0
serio_raw               4440  0
button                  4714  0
processor              30310  0
thermal                11834  0
pcspkr                  1795  0
edac_mce_amd            6785  0
parport                29923  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
pci_hotplug            26576  1 shpchp
i2c_core               18137  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
usbcore               140517  3 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
rtc_cmos                8904  0
rtc_core               14631  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 1810  1 rtc_core
ext4                  334960  2
mbcache                 5466  2 ext2,ext4
jbd2                   80162  1 ext4
crc16                   1273  1 ext4
sr_mod                 15043  0
cdrom                  36354  1 sr_mod
sd_mod                 26313  6
pata_acpi               3288  0
pata_amd               10948  0
ata_generic             3111  0
sata_nv                21639  4
floppy                 55998  0
libata                152308  4 pata_acpi,pata_amd,ata_generic,sata_nv
scsi_mod               92676  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System Management (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK8S Ethernet Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Serial ATA Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Serial ATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1)
02:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46)
I use 64bit archlinux (Gnome 2.28.2, core 2.6.32) @ AMD Athlon 64 Processor 2800+,
I have the same problem on 32bit Arch.
Do somebody help me?
Thanks