New Firewire Capture Card

on a fresh modprobe, /dev/raw1394 gets these permissions:
supermario@portablemario:~$ ls -alh /dev/raw1394
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 171, 0 2008-03-01 14:01 /dev/raw1394

Can you track down where suddenly permissions were changed to root:root?

Unfortunately (for us):

/etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules:

# IEEE1394 (firewire) devices
# Please note that raw1394 gives unrestricted, raw access to every single
# device on the bus and those devices may do anything as root on your system.
# Yes, I know it also happens to be the only way to rewind your video camera,
# but it's not going to be group "video", okay?
KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="disk"
KERNEL=="dv1394*", GROUP="video"
KERNEL=="video1394*", GROUP="video"

I've got override permissions added in bzr. Please find where you were getting root:root on your raw1394 devices though. These override permissions aren't going to do anything if somehow the devices are set to root:root.

The root:root came from the modification of the init script in the firewire howto:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Firewire

This bug was fixed in the package mythtv - 0.21.0~fixes16338-0ubuntu1

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mythtv (0.21.0~fixes16338-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream checkout.
  * debian/mythtv-frontend.dirs:
    - Add var/log/mythtv (LP: #185646)
  * debian/patches/10_mythfilldatabase_log:
    - Should allow mythfilldatabase to really log (LP: #196553)
  * debian/patches/11_add_myth_prime:
    - Adds mythprime binary for firewire priming.
  * debian/rules:
    - Turn on fribidi formatting (LP: #195780)
    - Drop XvMC-OpenGL. (LP: #195780)
  * debian/mythtv-backend.files:
    - Install mythprime binary
  * Add 41-mythtv-permissions.rules to override permissions on
    raw1394 devices to folks in the mythtv group. (LP: #197202)
  * Add firewire priming support to mythtv-backend init script.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:54:49 -0600