Patrick, You could also try running the ROS driver videre_stereo_cam in ua-ros-pkg. Just run roslaunch videre_stereo_cam videre.launch to run the camera in stoc mode. I am not sure it's going to work since neither coriander nor svs works, but you can give it a shot. Anton On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Patrick Goebel wrote: > It occurred to me that I have an old digital video camera that uses > Firewire.  So I installed kino, plugged in the camera to the same > Firewire port I've been using with the STOC camera and presto, I am able > to control the camera and capture some video. > > So I'm wondering if my problem is not having the Videre driver installed > correctly.  In fact, I'm not even sure what installing the driver might > mean beyond what I did in the beginning which was:  I unpacked the > original SVS tgz file into /home/patrick/bin/svs.  Then: > > $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/patrick/bin/svs/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > $ cd /usr/lib > $ sudo ln -s libraw1394.so.11.0.1 libraw1394.so.8 > $ sudo ldconfig > > Is there something else I need to do to make sure the STOC driver is > being accessed? > > --patrick > > > > On 02/12/2011 09:10 AM, Patrick Goebel wrote: >> Many thanks Anton and Jack!  Changing the permissions and group (video) >> on /dev/raw1394 got me a little further but there is still a problem. >> Coriander now comes up and shows "VIDERE_DESIGN MDS-STH" under the >> Camera Select menu but the window is completely unresponsive--clicking >> on tabs and buttons has no effect.  Typing Ctrl-C in the launching >> terminal kills the coriander window but does not return the command >> prompt and coriander is listed as a defunct process.  Also, trying to >> run smallv simply hangs after issuing the command--no window ever >> appears and neither Ctrl-C nor 'pkill -9 smallv' in another terminal can >> kill it... >> >> Just to summarize: >> >> ls -l /dev/raw1394 >> crwxrwxrwx 1 root video 171, 0 2011-02-12 08:57 /dev/raw1394 >> >> uid=1000(patrick) gid=1000(patrick) >> groups=4(adm),6(disk),20(dialout),24(cdrom),44(video),46(plugdev),104(lpadmin),115(admin),120(sambashare),1000(patrick) >> >> ls -l /dev/video1394/ >> total 0 >> crwxrwxrwx+ 1 root video 171, 16 2011-02-12 08:57 0 >> crwxrwxrwx+ 1 root video 171, 17 2011-02-12 08:57 1 >> >> Any other thoughts? >> >> --patrick >> >> >> On 02/12/2011 08:46 AM, Antons Rebguns wrote: >>> What I always have to do is set RW permissions on /dev/raw1394, I >>> never had to touch /dev/video1394. After that everything usually works >>> just fine. >>> >>> Anton >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jack O'Quin   wrote: >>>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Patrick Goebel   wrote: >>>> >>>>> I made sure I am a member of both the disk and video groups and I did a >>>>> chmod 777 on dev/video1394/* so that ls -l dev/video1394/* gives: >>>>> >>>>> crwxrwxrwx+ 1 root video 171, 16 2011-02-12 07:59 0 >>>>> crwxrwxrwx+ 1 root video 171, 17 2011-02-12 07:59 >>>> >>>> You probably need to do something similar for /dev/raw1394: >>>> >>>>    http://www.ros.org/wiki/camera1394/Troubleshooting#No_Bus_Access_Permissions >>>> -- >>>>    joq >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ros-users mailing list >>>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >