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- libraw1394 for Debian
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-
- Before all, you must verify if your actual linux kernel is built with
- ieee1394 and raw1394 support. Generaly, if you use a debian linux kernel
- package, it is the case, but you can know that with this command:
- grep IEEE1394 /boot/config-`uname -r`
-
- If theses modules are in you kernel, you may see theses lines:
- CONFIG_IEEE1394=y
- CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m or CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y
-
- When you have CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y, you have to do nothing.
- If you have CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m, you must load the module.
- You can do that with this command (executed as the root user):
- modprobe raw1394
-
- The device file /dev/raw1394 will be created for libraw1394. This library
- is used by applications to access FireWire devices.
- The default access permissions allows only users in the "disk" group.
- This restrictive setting was chosen since raw1394 allows almost full
- access to the FireWire bus and all connected devices are accessible, which
- may include hard disks.
- You can add your user in the "disk" group with this command (executed as the root user):
- adduser <user> disk
-
- If you don't intend to connect sensitive devices and e.g. only want to get
- video streams out of a camera, you can relax the permissions. If you
- don't have malicious users on your system, you can allow access for all
- users with this command (executed as the root user):
- chmod 666 /dev/raw1394
-
- -- Ludovic RESLINGER <lr@cuivres.net>, Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:08:19 +0200
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