Firewire Stack in F8 Howto Wanted - SOLVED.

[Albert Graham]

I just wanted to close this issue as it is now resolved.

It turns out I had the "Firewire 1394" option disabled in the BIOS, 
However because "lspci" does show a firewire port (TSB43AB22/A 
IEEE-1394a-2000) I had assume the BIOS had it enabled. Today I got a 
chance to reboot this box and checked the BIOS and it was disabled, now 
lspci show two firewire controllers!

07:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host 
Controller (rev c0)
08:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A 
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

Now dvgrab works perfectly with this motherboard and controller :)

I note that some people had suggested (thanks) that the original 
controller was fully supported. This motherboard does have a FW 
interface on the motherboard, so maybe if I had connected to that one it 
would have worked - TODO.

Other good news, my Mini DV camera also has a USB web cam mode and using 
the Linux uvcvideo module the webcam works perfectly :) - this is a V4L 
device (i.e. /dev/video1) so will work with ZoneMinder (As I originally 
wanted - albeit the quality is not great)

Would be great if ZoneMinder would work with DV/firewire.

Thanks.

Albert.



Albert Graham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can any one, point me to a Howto that explains how to use the new 
> Firewire stack in F7/8,
>
> I'm trying to get my Mini DV camera to work with via Firewire, 
> actually was hoping to use the Camara with ZoneMinder.
>
> lspci shows:
> 08:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments  Controller (PHY/Link)
>
> lsmod shows:
>
> firewire_ohci          19137  0
> firewire_core          36353  1 firewire_ohci
> crc_itu_t               5953  1 firewire_core
>
> However, no devices in /dev/fwX appear to be created ?
>
> dvgrab does not see a device connected:
>
> #dvgrab
> Error: no camera exists
>
> I checked the fedora documentation, but could not find any docs on the 
> subject.
>
> BTW: I'm using kernel 2.6.24.2-7.fc8PAE
>
> TIA.
>
> Albert.
>
>