[mythtv-users] Firewire in Fedora 8

[Tim Fenn]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:50:25 -0400 Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I have Mythtv-0.21 installed on F8 x86_64 running kernel version 
> 2.6.24.3-34.fc8.  I have the following 1394 packages installed (via
> rpm -qa |grep 1394):
> libraw1394_8-1.3.0-3_11.fc8
> libraw1394-1.3.0-3_11.fc8
> libraw1394_8-1.3.0-3_11.fc8
> libdc1394_22-2.0.1-10.fc8
> libavc1394-0.5.3-1.fc6
> libraw1394-1.3.0-3_11.fc8
> libavc1394-0.5.3-1.fc6
> libdc1394-2.0.1-10.fc8
> 
> If I run plugreport, I get:
> raw1394 - couldn't get handle: No such file or directory
> This error usually means that the raw1394 driver is not loaded or
> that /dev/raw1394 does not exist.
> 
> I don't have /dev/raw1394 and running lsmod shows no 1394 modules 
> loaded.  I don't have any 1394 modules in /etc/modprobe.conf (and I 
> didn't in my old FC6 modprobe.conf either; I saved it and checked,
> and firewire worked in FC6 for me).
> 

My guess is that its loading the firewire_core and firewire_ohci
modules.  If so, follow these directions to blacklist them:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora_7#Restore_old_Firewire_modules_.28optional.29

HTH,
Tim

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