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Jarod Wilson wrote:
If you're among those who have voiced concerns with the FireWire support in Fedora, particularly in the audio/video area, please do try to test out the latest rawhide kernels (2.6.24-0.149.fc7.git2.fc9 or later) and/or the 2.6.23.13 kernel working its way through koji right now[1].
For the most part, dvgrab should be functional with these kernels, on all but Via VT630x chipsets in OHCI 1.0 mode[2]. IIDC video streaming (such as coriander + libdc1394 v2) should be fully functional on all OHCI 1.0 and 1.1 FireWire controllers.
As yet untested with this latest kernel is FireWire video capture off a cable box[3], but that's on my todo list for the weekend. (There's reason to believe this might be working now with the addition of dynamic buffer allocation).
Additional feedback on other open FireWire bugs would be appreciated as well[4][5]. Note that most of the enhancements added to the latest kernels are on the a/v side, but I plan to start looking at storage more soon as well...
[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=343219 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415841 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240774 [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243081 [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370931
Okay, we've made some significant progress on the storage front in the past week and a half now as well. The fixes aren't all yet into rawhide, but locally, I've now got multiple drives that used to hit either 'failed to login[6]' or 'giving up on config rom[7]' (both of which render the drive useless) now working perfectly.
[6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238606 [7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429598
Stay tuned for test kernels if you've got storage issues...
- -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com