[mythtv-users] Enabling firewire

[Nick Zambo]

I didn't specifically install -dev or -devel for firewire but when I
searched for firewire in the available packages I didn't see anything
either.  I'll look again.


On 2/12/06, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> Nick Zambo wrote:
>
> >Hey all,
> >
> >I'm trying to justify building a whole mythtv rig to my wife so I'm
> >trying to get a preliminary setup running on my little laptop.  I've
> >got everything as it needs to be but I'm trying to get the setup
> >working with my Motorola DVR set-top box from Comcast.  Everything
> >looks cool on the setup.  I've got mysql, lame, qt, etc running on
> >Mandriva free 2006.  The motorola box uses a firewire out to transfer
> >data and that's where I'm running into the problem.  Everything on the
> >OS side looks like 1394 is enabled and working.  I know the port works
> >ok because I can do video captures using windows + firewire.
> >
> >does anyone have experience using myth + firewire.  When I do a
> >./configure on myth, the firewire option always comes back "no"
> >regardless of what options I try.
> >
> >
> Do you have the appropriate -dev or -devel packages installed for firewire?
>
> --Yan
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