[mythtv-users] No GUID showing up in Firewire capture card setup

[Bob Shanteau]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Bob Shanteau <rmshant at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> And here's the result on a Startech 2+1 Firewire PCI card with a VIA VT6307
>> chip that I just from OfficeDepot.com:
>>
>> [mythtv at localhost ~]$ dmesg | fgrep firewire
>> firewire_ohci 0000:01:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 19 (level, low)-> IRQ 19
>> firewire_ohci: Failed to reset ohci card.
>> firewire_ohci 0000:01:09.0: PCI INT A disabled
>> firewire_ohci: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error
>>     
> Ew. That's ugly. Not sure what happened there. I hate firewire sometimes. Or at least the multitude of poorly implemented firewire chips out in the world.
>   

I just tried installing the Startech card on the old FIC AU13 
motherboard and it works with MythTV! Here are my outputs:

***
[mythtv at localhost ~]$ dmesg | fgrep firewire
firewire_ohci 0000:01:0a.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, 
high) -> IRQ 18
firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:01:0a.0, OHCI version 1.10
firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 001106664555791b, S400
firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 001c11fffea6e812, S400
firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5

[mythtv at localhost ~]$ plugreport
Host Adapter 0
==============

Node 0 GUID 0xf98c040808048cf9
------------------------------
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR

Node 1 GUID 0x001c11fffea6e812
------------------------------
oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
    channel=0, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=376
iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
***

The GUID in MythTV autopopulated and I can watch TV.

The problem is that I was only using the FIC motherboard for testing. 
It's an old Athlon full size ATX motherboard that uses DDR memory and 
AGP video, and I just bought a MicroStar K9N6PGM2-V2 microATX DDR2 
Athlon64 motherboard with PCIe video for use with a small horizontal 
case for my home theater setup. But at least now I know how Firewire is 
supposed to work with MythTV. I suppose I will have to try some Firewire 
cards in the new MicroStar motherboard until I find one that works with 
MythTV.

Bob Shanteau