[mythtv-users] SA3250HD and Firewire

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/4/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/3/06, matt mead <m-mythtv at goof.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Allan Wilson wrote:
> > > I am loading the following three modules in this order
> > >
> > > ieee1394
> > > ohci1394
> > > raw1394
> >
> > What do you get when you run lsmod | grep 1394 ?
> >
> > > and I installed them per the recommendations from this site:
> > >
> > > http://www.ubuntu-mythtv.blogspot.com/
> > > <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
> >
> > I don't know how to get into the SA3250HD service menus or diagnostic
> > displays
> > - can you share how to do this?
> >
> >
> > -matt
> >
> > --
> > matt mead
> >
> > http://collectivity.goof.com/
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
>
> I am not at home right now but if I remember right hold down the pause
> button for about 30 seconds until your message light on the cable box is
> blinking then press the page up button. Now you can use <page up> and <page
> down> to go through the diagnostics and press exit to go back to viewing
> television. The two screens I found most useful was the next to last and the
> one before it. Let me know what yours says and if you have a digital camera
> taking some pictures of those screens would be most useful. Thanks
>
> Allan
>

Turns out all I was missing was two modules in /etc/modules. For firewire to
work you have to have

ieee1394
ohci1394
eth1394
raw1394
dv1394

in /etc/modules just like it says on the wiki or it won't work.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20060511/7fd62767/attachment.htm