[mythtv-users] No more firewire on F8 ( ieee1394 for 2.6.24 )

[Mark Hutchinson]

William Munson wrote:
> Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>   
>> Anyone else seen this?  Ideas?
>>
>> Just updates the the latest kernel on Fedora 8.
>> I use firewire, so install ieee1394 rpms ( in the last 2.6.23 kernel I 
>> used ieee1394-kmdl-2.6.23.15-137.fc8-2.6.23.1-4.fc8 RPM )
>> Now, there are no ieee1394 RPMS for the latest kernel?  Unable to find 
>> anywhere on the net either.  Has something changed in the kernel that 
>> that 2.6.24 is out?
>>
>>   
>>     
> Welcome to the reason I left Fedora. AFAIK what happened is they went to 
> the new firewire stack in F8 which breaks things for any of us who use 
> firewire capture from a STB. I was not able to get it working at all and 
> ended up going to Ubuntu because they still use the old stack and 
> firewire capture "just works" without jumping thru hoops. Good luck 
> getting it working.
>
> Bill
>
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The ieee1394 rpm and ieee1394-kmdl allowed Fedora 8 to use the old 
stack.  Now there does not seem to be a kmdl rpm package though for the 
new 2.6.24 kernel that was just released.  So now my firewire is not 
working.