[mythtv-users] Firewire changes in 0.21 (trouble)

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Justin Nolan <hondacrxsi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>  > What does running "plugreport" tell you?  Do you see a device
>  > attached?
>
>  Yes, plugreport sees the box at adaptor 0, node 0 and with the same
>  GUID that myth-setup is automatically detecting.
>
>  But thank you, since that led me down the right path. I finally got
>  the backend to recognize the box (outside of setup) by changing the
>  firewire ownership to mythtv. Beyond this, it appears that the
>  firewire priming script now included with mythtv is HARDCODED FOR NODE
>  1. In the mythbackend script, I also needed to remove the if statement
>  in the prime_firewire function to get the script to run at all (how/
>  where do you set enable firewire to true?).
>
>  I ended up getting it working using the old tried and true priming
>  script found here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Firewire).
>
>  There are definitely a lot of strides getting firewire working for
>  most out of the box in .21, but it's going to be very hit or miss. I
>  imagine it must be universal that /dev/raw1394 needs to be owned by
>  mythtv instead of root--or is that just a mythbuntu oddity?

your mythtv user just needs to be a member of the group that
/dev/raw1394 is in, which in my Kubuntu install is "disk", once I put
the mythtv user in that group all is fine and getting mythtv working
with a firewire box should be pretty simple after that.

-- 
Steve
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