[mythtv-users] Firewire and F8

[Harry Devine]

Michael Jones wrote:
> On May 29, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Harry Devine wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a Motorola DCT-3412 STB and F8 x64 running myth 0.21.  I have  
>> my
>> firewire setup as a capture card, but my mythbackend will not  
>> initialize
>> it.  Every time mythbackend starts, I get a message that says "Problem
>> with capture cards" and "Card 6failed init".  This is seen in the
>> mythbackend.log file as well as via Mythweb.
>>
>> I've asked similar questions about firewire before about 2 months ago,
>> but go no responses, so I thought I'd try again.  I can run
>> firewire_tester successfully, so I know that it's active.  I can even
>> run the 6200ch script to change the STB channel, so my communication  
>> is
>> definitely there.  Myth just doesn't seem to want to use it.  I was
>> looking over the code on the SVN trac site (for what it's worth, I'm a
>> programmer, mainly Windows GUI programming, so I do have a pretty good
>> grasp on what I'm looking at) but can't seem to figure out why the
>> firewire capture won't initialize properly.
>>
>> Is there some way I can get more debug type information so I can
>> diagnose this further?
>>
>>     
>
> I just fought with my firewire connection recently. I had similar  
> symptoms.  It turned out to be the permissions on the /dev/raw1394 file.
>
> I don't know for sure what the minimum permissions are for this file,  
> but I did a:
>
> chmod 777 /dev/raw1394
>
> If this is the issue, you'll also need to set it again on reboot from  
> the rc.local script.
>
>
>   
>> Thanks,
>> Harry
>>
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>   
Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work.  I set it to 777 and 
restarted the backend service, and got the same error in the log.  I'm 
sure I'm missing something simple, but can't seem to find what it is.

Thanks,
Harry