On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Jamin W. Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcollins@asgardsrealm.net">jcollins@asgardsrealm.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Has anyone had success using firewire with a Pace RNG110? I've searched the lists and seen a few posts[1] regarding it, but nothing really indicating success.<br>
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So far, I can reliably (from the little testing I've done) change channels using the 6200ch binary. Like the referenced post, I can get mythprime to succeed if I specify channel changer 1 or 2.<br>
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However, even when mythprime succeeds, both firewire_tester and test-mpeg2 fail.<br>
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I've tried two different systems, with two different firewire interfaces, and two different firewire cables (one 6 pin, one 4 to 6 pin).<br>
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[1] - <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-March/284056.html" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-March/284056.html</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Hi Jamin,<br>
I have had a little bit of success getting firewire through the RNG110
working. The biggest problem for me was actually the firewire stack in
the kernel. I found that the older stack (on older versions of fedora)
didn't allow recording. However, updating to a more recent distribution
(I think Fedora 11 or higher) did. Can you try creating a live usb of the latest fedora to run
test-mpeg2? It worked for me and was a good testing platform<br>. <br>My only other problem was that there was
a bug in the driver for a certain firewire chip (I think it was one of
the TI chips) that caused random failures on x86-64. I think it might be fixed in FC13. As a result, I
would recommend that you try the i386 version of the distribution to
verify that things work and then slowly graduate to x86-64 (if desired)
and mythtv.<br>Good luck,<br>
-Greg<br><br><br>