On Sunday 12 November 2006 16:23, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 12 November 2006 07:05, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> And snipped my original post about 1394 stuffs in general, please >> don't do that as it destroys the context of the thread. >> >>> Look at the boot messages as they go past - I'm pretty sure >>> I remember noticing yesterday a message during boot that >>> hotplug failed to start on my machine. Maybe it is just >>> broken (this was FC6 i686 system). >> >> The only mention of hotplug is this: >> Nov 12 05:59:04 coyote pcscd: >> hotplug_libusb.c:361:HPEstablishUSBNotifications() Hotplug stopped >> and >> Nov 12 06:03:04 coyote kernel: pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core >> version: 0.5 >> at the last reboot. >> >> And there doesn't seem to be a hotplug entry in /etc/init.d, so I'm a >> bit fruzzled. >> >> 1. hotplug wasn't something I used in FC2 so I'm not fam with its >> foibles. >> >> 2. /etc/hotplug only has a usb subdir in it, and is otherwise empty >> except for what appears to be a couple of kino related files in the >> usb subdir. And my camera uses firewire, not usb. >> >> 3. I was able to get all that to work early this morning by repeatedly >> modprobing those 3 modules until the errors went away (I expect I had >> them listed in the wrong order on the command line), and then used >> htop to send the udevd a SIGHUP. Then kino could find the camera and >> run it. but not before. >> >> If anyone has any suggestions please speak up.. >> >> Thanks. > >In FC5, and most likely in FC6, hotplug is not being used. Hummm... Interesting. Flavor of the month left a bad aftertaste? :) >The >functions of hotplug have been taken over by udev and HAL. I believe >that the reason that /etc/hotplug is still there is that udev does >some checking for old hotplug scripts and uses them. Are there manpages on properly setting this up then? url's? >Before it died, I was doing some work to convert the hotplug code >for my REB110 ebook reader to set the proper permissions so I could >run rebcomm as a normal user. I have a hotplug script that set the >owner of the USB device to the owner of the console. Because it does >not get an entry in /dev, you can not use the normal permission >setting of udev. I did get it working, sort of, by loading everything with modprobe, and then kicking udevd with a kill -HUP. kino can now see the camera, and can pull real time video in, but camera controls are taking kino into segfault territory, almost everytime a control button is clicked on, much much worse than it did under FC5. There it was a nuisance, now its a certainty. kino-0.9.3 is out, and I've asked for a package on livna, but its been several days without a bisquit now... But this needs to be made automatic when the camera is plugged in and turned on. I probably screwed around with the above for an hour or more before it suddently worked. The instability could even be related to all that for all I know. Thanks Mikkel for this and any more clues you can throw my way. -- Cheers, Gene
