[ltp] T61p Firewire (Jennifer Richards)

[Jennifer Richards]

Dear Florian,

> I have a ThinkPad R52 with a Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev =
> 08)=20
> built in - no problems here with Ubuntu 8.04. Used it with a Samsung MiniDV=
> =20
> Camcorder a few days ago (fetching the video data with Kino).=20
> Module "raw1394" and "dv1394" is loaded when plugging the camcorder in.

	Out of interest which camcorder are you using?, I was considering
getting a Canon HV30 but I'm nervous as I've never used one with Linux
before.

> 
> You could open a terminal and type:
> 
> lspci | grep -i firewire
> 
> This should give you detailed info about the built in firewire hardware!

In case it is of interest I get: 

15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev 04)

Thanks

Jenny