Sony handycam in opensuse 11.2

Hi , everyone. I have problem connecting a sony handycam DCR-TRV270E PAL via firewire.The system cannot detect the camera.I tried kino,gimp,kdenlive nothing happens. When i plug in the camera nothing happens. Any ideas about what can i do? Thank you in advance.

I connected my TRV230. It looked like it was not detected, but the 1394 modules were all loaded when it was plugged in. It was a permissions thing on /dev/raw1394. If I ran dvgrab as root, it would work, as myself, it would complain about permissions. I added world read/write to it. Probably should have changed the group to video (actually, why isn’t that the default?).

Anyway, worked for me. BTW, I used to use kino for my home movies, but have been very impressed with kdenlive so far.