-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jarod Wilson wrote: > If you're among those who have voiced concerns with the FireWire support in > Fedora, particularly in the audio/video area, please do try to test out the > latest rawhide kernels (2.6.24-0.149.fc7.git2.fc9 or later) and/or the > 2.6.23.13 kernel working its way through koji right now[1]. > > For the most part, dvgrab should be functional with these kernels, on all but > Via VT630x chipsets in OHCI 1.0 mode[2]. IIDC video streaming (such as > coriander + libdc1394 v2) should be fully functional on all OHCI 1.0 and 1.1 > FireWire controllers. > > As yet untested with this latest kernel is FireWire video capture off a cable > box[3], but that's on my todo list for the weekend. (There's reason to believe > this might be working now with the addition of dynamic buffer allocation). > > Additional feedback on other open FireWire bugs would be appreciated as > well[4][5]. Note that most of the enhancements added to the latest kernels are > on the a/v side, but I plan to start looking at storage more soon as well... > > [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=343219 > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415841 > [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240774 > [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243081 > [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370931 Okay, we've made some significant progress on the storage front in the past week and a half now as well. The fixes aren't all yet into rawhide, but locally, I've now got multiple drives that used to hit either 'failed to login[6]' or 'giving up on config rom[7]' (both of which render the drive useless) now working perfectly. [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238606 [7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429598 Stay tuned for test kernels if you've got storage issues... - -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHl3lztO+bni+75QMRAtSpAJ9bEvShYmXgmkGKHDTThz8vRMA0UgCgzx+X WuZs8BpSWifkLSWjyK1+DPs= =OxXm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
