Mike Smith wrote: >Hi, > >I just received a Scientific Atlanta 3250HD with an >active Firewire port and can't get it to work with >MythTV 0.18 on Mandrake 10.0. I have Time Warner >Cable in Cincinnati. They didn't go out of their >way to get the box to me, but I was VERY persistant. >Took about six weeks of pestering. > >The 1394 port on the 3250HD is active. I plugged it >into the firewire port on my HDTV and I get ALL the >digital channels, including HBO. > >I built the latest release of libraw1384, libiec61883, >and the utilities for the 2.6 kernal. I can >load all the drivers. > >I can plug a Firewire external drive into the 1394A >port >built into my motherboard and its recognized. I can >mount filesystems on the drive. When I do a >plugreport >with the drive attached, I see information for node 0 >and node 1. > >Next, I removed the drive, rebooted the mythbackend >server and connected the 1394 port on the 3250 to >the 1394A port on my computers motherboard while >tailing /var/log/messages. Nothing. No messages at >all. I then do a plugreport and see only node 0. > >Here are the 1394 related drives loaded: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] libiec61883]# lsmod |grep 1394 >dv1394 20076 0 >video1394 17996 0 >raw1394 29740 0 >eth1394 21256 0 >ohci1394 33348 2 dv1394,video1394 >ieee1394 319704 5 >dv1394,video1394,raw1394,eth1394,ohci1394 > >When I load the drivers manually, I get the following >messages in /var/log/messages: > >Jul 14 18:26:19 lbk kernel: devfs_mk_dev: could not >append to parent for raw1394Jul 14 18:26:19 lbk >kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device >initialized >Jul 14 18:26:52 lbk kernel: devfs_mk_dev: could not >append to parent for video1394/0 >Jul 14 18:26:52 lbk kernel: video1394: Installed >video1394 module > > >Anyone have an idea on what else I can try? > >Thanks, > >Mike > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >mythtv-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > You may have to manually create the node for /dev/raw1394 prior to actually modprobing the driver
/bin/mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0; I have to do this followed by a bus reset everytime the machine is reset for my 3250HD to work. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
