Re: [gentoo-user] ieee1394 card - ports order

[Matthias Bethke]

Hi Joseph,
on Friday, 2006-03-24 at 18:51:17, you wrote:
> I was under impression that ieee1394 cards would work the same as
> USB-ports; regardless which port I plug my device into it will just
> work, not so with ieee1394 cards.

I'm not an expert on ieee1394 but from what I've seen they actually do
work the same in this respect, I've only tries SBP2 mass storage stuff
though, no cameras. Have a look at dmesg output; usually the kernel will
print some info there when you plug in a 1394 device. If it shows
nothing at all you most likely don't have all the modules loaded,
otherwise it should at least be an error message. 
I heard the ports on some external HD cases were actually different in
that they accepted a host only on one but not the other, and there seem
to be some general problems in the kernel with daisy-chaining devices.
As you don't seem to have any oth these problems, no, I'm quite sure
order doesn't matter.

> In "kino" under settings there is IEEE1394 "tab" and has an option
> "raw1394 interface" option that is set to "0" I've tried setting it to
> "1" but it didn't work.

You do have the kernel support for that, don't you?
CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394 and CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO in .config?

cheers!
	Matthias
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