Re: Status of FireWire/IEEE1394/SBP2 in FC2?

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On Sun, 2 May 2004, D. D. Brierton wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm still running RHL9 here, but since it EOLed on Friday I need to
> consider what to move to. One reason I didn't upgrade to FC1 was the
> reported problems with FireWire/IEEE1394/SBP2 (I believe that FC1
> shipped without FireWire enabled, and in order to use it you had to roll
> your own modules, but I may be misremembering).
> 
> I see from Fedora News Updates #10
> (http://www.fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/issue10.shtml) under "Fedora Core 2
> test2 notes" that:
> 
>         "ieee1394 (Firewire) is not available in current kernels, and
>         till its re-enabled, making the modules by yourself might be
>         required (reference:
>         http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg02482.html). If it's causing you grief, remove its reference in /etc/modprobe.conf and rebuild your image (reference: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg00111.html)."

Damn.  I wonder if this is the reason that I haven't been able to get the 
video from my camcorder into FC1.  I don't have any problems in Win2K.

The weird thing is that I can control the camera with dvcont, but I can't 
capture anything with dvgrab...



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