[mythtv-users] Firewire STB Trouble on Linux

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sat Dec 16 02:31:02 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 13:25 -0500, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> I'm trying to use the Firewire support with my Comcast 3412 STB. I'm 
> running a 2.6.17 Linux kernel on a Pentium 4 laptop. Under Windows XP on 
> the same hardware I can do the captures (capdvhs), and under MacOS X on 
> different hardware but same STB I also get success (virtualdvhs - chan 0).

You may want to try the patch on ticket #1648. It automatically
resets the bus when needed, and it also doesn't open overlaid
connections like the current code in SVN.

-- Daniel



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