FCT3 and raw1394?

[jeru]

Is firewire broken in FC2T3? I can't seem to get anything to work with it.

If I look at my hardware browser It shows up... It's a Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller.. (zero idea how it even knows about this, nothing under /proc/bus/ resembles ieee1394)

Now the thing is If I run lsmod... There is nothing in there about firewire, if I run testlibraw, I get;
couldn't get handle: No such device or address
This probably means that you don't have raw1394 support in the kernel or that
you haven't loaded the raw1394 module.

So if I try to modprobe raw1394 i get an error about how it can't find it.

Maybe this is all changed in kernel 2.6 and you have to do something different now.... But I can't get kino to do anything with my DV camera.

rpm -qa '*1394*'
libavc1394-0.4.1-1.1
libraw1394-devel-0.10.1-1
libavc1394-devel-0.4.1-1.1
libraw1394-0.10.1-1

and then there is
libdv-0.102-1
dvgrab-1.5-2

Can anybody clue me into whats going on here? Or what I should do?

[jeru]

Oh yeah, also there is nothing in dmesg and messages with a *1394* in it

[Darkmage]

http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/snap...rewire/0README
IEEE1394 was removed because of some conflict with the kernel 2.6. Hopefully, they will have it fixed for FC2

The only way to get the modules is by grabbing the kernel-source and recompiling the kernel with 1394 enabled.

[jeru]

Man, I hope so too.... No firewire is a pretty large disability in a linux distro these days. So I will wait patiently for the full release.

[ewdi]

i think final will have 1394 mod fix by then, we will see during the freeze date

[jeru]

Well, it's not looking very promising for ieee1394 support with FC2...... I'll just wait the extra week for the final release and switch distro's if it doesn't happen I guess. Nobody seems to be responding to any of the submissions on bugzilla.

[rhys]

Originally posted by jeru
Well, it's not looking very promising for ieee1394 support with FC2...... I'll just wait the extra week for the final release and switch distro's if it doesn't happen I guess. Nobody seems to be responding to any of the submissions on bugzilla.

IEEE1394 works fine for me. I haven't read up on the conflict yet, but recompiling my kernel with IEEE394 enabled and SBP2 support built in worked fine on my Sony Vaio PCG-R600HFPD laptop (CD writer requires firewire support).

If this is your only concern regarding Fedora then compiling up a kernel with firewire support should be a trivial way to resolve it.

Best of luck.

Rhys