Firewire (ieee1394) and Mandrake 9.1

davecs · 07-03-2003, 11:15 AM

I understand that the Kernel supplied with Mandrake 9.1 is already configured for Firewire, but that drivers/modules have to be installed.

I thought I had but I cannot get it to work.

According to lsmod, ieee1394 and ohci1394 are there, but that's it.

System:

Mandrake 9.1
Kouwell 582V2 PCI Firewire Card
JVC GR-D40EK Camcorder
Asus A7M266VM mobo nVidia drivers installed
Athlon 2200
512Mb RAM

Any ideas what I have to do?

DAVE

davecs · 07-10-2003, 09:35 AM

By the way I have tried "modprobe" with video1394 and dv1394 loaded every program recommended by the www.linux1394.org site with no joy. I have tried to join that site but it won't let me.

Has anyone got a Digital Camcorder successfully connected to Linux? If so, please let me know how you did it!

DAVE

geoff_f · 07-11-2003, 08:15 AM

See my comments at your post regarding Compact Flash and USB Lockup:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...742#post370742

Your hardware problems could all have a common cause - which might be able to be fixed with the 'noapic' solution.

davecs · 07-11-2003, 04:58 PM

Thanks Geoff, but no, it made no difference whatever. When I run Kino/Preferences I get a message box saying:

The IEEE 1394 subsystem is not loaded;
all IEEE 1394 options are disabled.

DAVE

davecs · 07-23-2003, 05:12 PM

I have half-solved the problem. However, the other half has me stymied!

Turns out that when I modprobe in all the drivers, they are available to root only, so when I run Kino, it cannot find the ieee1394 subsystem!

Why is this and how do I correct it? I'm running Mandake 9.1.

DAVE