Description of problem: I have a Canon ZR100 digital video camera with a IEEE-1394 interface. When I plug in the camera, the associated device node is owned by root. As a result, normal users can not access the camera using dvgrab. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.7-4 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in as a normal user. 2. Connect the video camera using IEEE-1394 3. Try to capture video using dvgrab Actual results: > dvgrab raw1394 - failed to get handle: Permission denied. Expected results: When a user logs in and obtains console ownership using pam_console, the ownership of /dev/raw1394 should be set to that user. Additional info: The gphoto2 package installs a HAL policy that runs a script (/usr/libexec/gphoto-set-procperm) when a digital camera is plugged in to the system's USB bus. The same should be done for digital video cameras.
Is there a package that handles digital video camera access (like gphoto handles digital cameras)? That would be the correct place to put associated fdi files and scripts.
I don't think we have a definitive package. The dvgrab package is an option, but it is not the only way to grab video from a camera. I think even gstreamer has a IEEE-1394 src. Right now I don't believe there is one single package that must be installed if one is to interact with video cameras using Fedora. Perhaps we should create a package like desktop-printing? This could be a lightweight package that is required by all video camera-related packages.
can you attach the output of `lshal` with the camera plugged in. Thanks.
Created attachment 129150 [details] Output from lshal with video camera attached to IEEE-1394 bus Please see "raw1394" in the attached output.
John, should this be assigned to David Zeuthen? I understand you and he have traded places at Red Hat.
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Is this superceded by bug #441073 - user firewire permissions and dvgrab in F9?
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Superceded by bug #441073 - user firewire permissions and dvgrab in F9. Can the owner close this as a dup?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 441073 ***