Alexandre Oliva wrote : > On Apr 28, 2004, Chris Kloiber <ckloiber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > FireWire is currently busted in the latest kernel trees. IIRC it > > compiles but explodes wonderfully on insertion, taking the whole system > > and half the of the South East USA seacoast with it into oblivion. It > > will likely be turned on again when it works. > > Which probably means it won't make it to FC2 final. I plan on > offering some work-arounds for Firewire users, sort of like I did for > FC1. My plan is to take the Firewire code that shipped with kernel > 2.6.3, since that has worked quite reliably for me. Eeek!!! Disable FireWire in the final release!? I hope you were joking, and that whatever working version that existed last will be forward ported since FireWire seems nearly vital to me. I personally use it _very_ often to connect an external hard drive, as well as my MiniDV camcorder with dvgrab/kino, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 1.92 (FC2 Test 3) - Linux kernel 2.6.5-1.327 Load : 1.06 1.15 1.14
