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...
