[mythtv-users] Is MythTV still incompatible with new firewire subsystem?

William Munson william_munson at comcast.net
Mon Apr 7 00:02:17 UTC 2008


Marc Barrett wrote:
> The firewire entry on the mythtv wiki has a note that says:
>
> '"Fedora 7 and anything running kernel 2.6.22 or greater uses
> the new firewire architecture that is INCOMPATIBLE with MythTV"
>
> It includes some instructions on how to compile old firewire
> drivers for mythtv.  This information may be a bit dated, so
> is this still necessary?  Or have these incompatibilities been fixed?
>
>
> _
Yes. That is the very reason I rebuilt with Ubuntu a month ago. Nothing 
significant has changed since then in Myth code. Was running SVN trunk 
and now running 0.21-fixes. Fedora sucks for many reasons, this is one 
and the way too often release cycle is the other.




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