[mythtv-users] upgraded to fedora 7, now firewire is broken

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:19:01AM -0500, Mike LaPlante wrote:
> Gabe Rubin wrote:
> > On 8/9/07, Mike LaPlante <mike at dividia.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Fedora 7 has a brand new firewire stack the old modules are not built by
> >> default. I had to manually compile them which was sort of a pain. Here's
> >> a thread that may be helpful.
> >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=157524
> >>     
> >
> > This is kind of what I gathered from digging around last night, but
> > someone out there must be using atrpms, firewire, fedora 7 and not
> > compiling things.  I would rather not have to roll up my sleeves and
> > compile modules myself, but will attempt if no one else is able to get
> > firewire without doing so.
> >
> >   
> >> There is an ezplanet repo that supplies fedora kernels with the old
> >> firewire modules built, however, you can't really use that kernel and
> >> ATrpms nvidia, ivtv, lirc, etc kmdl packages.
> >>
> >>     
> > saw that also, but didnt see how i could get my other kernel modules,
> > so did not try to use this.
> 
> Unless you can coerce Axel into enabling those modules and rebuilding 
> the kernel, then putting it up on ATrpms. But I'm guessing he has plenty 
> on his plate already.
> 
> Check out post #40 on the above mentioned thread. That guy says it will 
> only take 5 minutes to do. I'm going to have to redo all of this here 
> soon because I'm still running 2.6.21-3228. I've been hesitating to 
> upgrade to 2.6.22 just because its all working now and I'm going to have 
> to manually rebuild those when I do upgrade.

Actually ATrpms already has the "old" ieee1394 module support as kmdl
for the RHEL5 kernel (anyone want to use RHEL5/clones insted of F7?
:).

Doing the same for F7 would not be that hard, but I would need a
volunteer that would want to keep it up to date, as it probably means
new source cut for each minor kernel jump. It would also make sense
for that volunteer(s) to coordinate with ezplanet.

Whoever is interested please come over to atrpms-devel list to refine
this.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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