Thanks for the suggestions which solved my problems. I installed gscanbus and when it aborted, I ran strace gscanbus which showed the problem was a failure to open /dev/raw1394. A check showed this file was owned by root and disk but with only 660 permissions. I changed the permissions to 666 and added the group disk to my user name. Then gscanbus showed a connection to my camera.
dvgrab starts the camera but drops frames even though I have stopped xdm and have no other programs running. I assume my Athlon XP 1800+ cpu is not fast enough for the job and will try an upgrade. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
