[mythtv-users] SA3250HD and Firewire

[Allan Wilson]

I am loading the following three modules in this order

ieee1394
ohci1394
raw1394

and I installed them per the recommendations from this site:

http://www.ubuntu-mythtv.blogspot.com/

I would be very interested in seeing what you have on your 1394 page when
your mythbox is connected and also any other page with any 1394 info. I do
think this is a 1394 issue not myth but wanted to show my progress for those
that follow and also to find other helpful peeps out there like yourself.
Also gscanbus and plugreport all show that it looks like everything is good
on their end. Is there anything that could be used on the cable box side to
not let it connect to my firewire card in my pc but connect to my
television? Thanks

Allan

On 5/3/06, matt mead <m-mythtv at goof.com> wrote:
>
> Allan Wilson wrote:
> > Okay finally got in touch with cable company and found out some
> > interesting information. My SA3250HD does have working firewire ports
> > when I hook it up to the firewire connections on my Sony KDS-R60XBR1
> > television. I did go in to the diagnostics mode on my cable box and when
> > no firewire cables are connected it shows the firewire port is disabled
> > and on the 1394 page shos a bunch of unavailables. Then if I connect my
> > Sony to a firewire port the status of the port stays on unavailable but
> > on the 1394 page I still have a bunch of unavailables but now I have a
> > new line at the bottom:
> >
> > Name Model                      Dev Auth EID
> > Sony KDS-R60XBR1          Unavailable 08004604 0502A845
> >
> > And I get a beutiful picture with sound through my firewire port on the
> > TV. If I then hookup the cpu two my second firewire port nothing on the
> > computer and now the above line disappears from my cable box and I don't
> > get anything on the TV also. If I have only the computer hooked up then
> > my 1394 page in the cable box diagnostics changes from disabled to
> > unavailable and I don't have anything listed under the name model dev
> > auth eid information line. Also another interesting fact is that on my
> > cable box through Comcast in my area I can only receive HD channels over
> > my firewire connection. I may have to take this to the 1394.org
> > <http://1394.org> guys or to the Myth Developers list but thought I
> > would try here first to see if anyone smarter than me had any ideas.
> > Thanks for all the help so far and maybe one day I will be able to get
> > this to work. By the way if anyone is curious I think the picture
> > through firewire is better than through DVI and I don't get the blocks
> > that I sometimes get through DVI. Thanks for any help
>
> If you have the info on how to get into diagnostic display I can report
> what my
> SA3250HD shows when I have myth hooked to it playing LiveTV from one of
> the
> channels.
>
> Did you ever verify that the firewire modules necessary are all in place?
> There is a listing of them at:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire
>
> I find it more convenient to use modules than building the code into the
> kernel, primarily because through the use of the hotplug blacklist and
> listing
> the modules in order in /etc/modules, I can control the order in which
> eth? is
> mapped to my ethernet devices (one of which is eth1394).
>
> Unless there's an obvious issue with modules, I would probably start a
> thread
> on the linux1394-user list.
>
>
>
> -matt
>
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> matt mead
>
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