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MythTV and FireWire (was: Comcast/Mythtv)



well, the card has two via chips on it.  one is vt6307 and the other is
vt6214l.  the card has 3 firewire and 3 usb 2.0 ports.  i'm not interested
in the extra usb ports at the moment so i didn't look for extra usb in lspci
output.  i wouldn't mind letting you have it.  hard to say when i'll be at
another meeting (my wife is on executive council at our local community
center and of course their meetings are the third wed of the month!).  we
can make other arrangements.
now i need to find a decent card with ti chips.  any recommendations?
btw, how do i add the 'juju' stack to mythdora?

as always,  thanks for the quick response.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:14 -0500, John Boland wrote:
> > on a mostly/kinda/sort of related note:
> >
> > i'm running mythdora 5 and i'm trying to get it talk to my cable box
> which
> > has a firewire port.  it is a motorola 3416.  i wnet over to microcenter
> > this weekend and picked up a firewire card.  unfortunately, i can't get
> the
> > o/s to recognize the card. i get kernel errors flooding /var/log/messages
> > saying uhci_hcd problems, controller error, pci system problems.
> > i've tried upgrading the mythdora o/s. however, it fails on a vmlinuz
> > dependenct that i haven't been able to resolve.  so, not being one to shy
> > away from over complex solutions...  i put another hd in the box and
> > installed fedora 9 and mythtv from the atrpms.  i still get the same
> kernel
> > messages and my pvr-350 card went missing!
> > so, i'm thinking i don't have a good or supported firewire card. it is an
> > ads tech dual-link pci card.  the server i'm using is limited to pci.
> > can anyone recommend a decent (cheap) firewire pci that will work with
> > mythdora 5 (2.6.24.4-64) and an intel mobo?
>
> Anything with a TI chipset should be solid. As should anything w/an
> Agere FW323. I'm less supportive of Via and JMicron chipsets (though all
> my JMicrons are fully functional now), and would stay away from ALI
> chipsets like the plague.
>
> I'm actually curious to know what's on the ADS card, would rather like
> to poke at it, if its truly bonkers...
>
> Nb: as of last Friday, I can actually pull video off my cable box using
> the new "juju" firewire stack Fedora has been shipping instead of the
> old ieee1394 stack, for the first time EVER. :) MythTV doesn't seem to
> handle it quite right yet (says a buddy), but test-mpeg2 from
> libiec61883 pulls video perfectly. Poking MythTV is on my todo list for
> the holiday weekend...
>
> --jarod
>
>
>
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