[mythtv-users] Fedora and firewire capture? Anyone got it working?

Mark Hutchinson mark at onnow.net
Mon Feb 11 19:29:26 UTC 2008


Daniel Agar wrote:
>>> I am having problems getting firewire capture working with Fedora.
>>> Specifically my backend locks up when I plug in the firewire cable. Does
>>> anyone have this working? It works with ubuntu but I hate that distro.
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>>       
>> I was having the same problem using Fedora 8 with my iPod over firewire.
>> I
>> was able to get around it by reverting to the previous kernel version.
>> I'm
>> not at home right now, but I'll reply with the kernel version that works
>> for
>> me when I get home.
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear if anyone else is/was having this problem.
>> Neither dmesg nor /var/log/messages contain any info.  The system just
>> locks
>> up as soon as you plug in the firewire.
>>     
>
> Using ieee1394 from atrpms (http://atrpms.net/dist/f8/ieee1394/) should
> fix your problem. Apparently the firewire stack changed in kernel 2.6.22
>
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I ended up using CentOS 5.1 with plus kernel.  Fedora was more 
intermittent with firewire for me.  CentOS ( RHEL anyway ) was perfect 
with firewire and really just worked.

Mark


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