I am suspicious that the real problem I am having is that my 1394 card is simply dead -- probably trashed by a static discharge. It hangs under the kernel it was working without a hitch on before.
Oh well, I'll just buy another. They are *cheap* these days, no sweat lost. -Fred On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:33 -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, at 7:59am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just upgraded from FC2 to FC3. Bad idea. I've had endless problems with > > getting the ieee1394 and related modules to work, and also I am no longer > > able to play DVDs through Xine. > > FWIW/FYI: FireWire under FC3 "just worked" for me, but I'm only using it > to talk to my new iPod, not for DV. I've got a Belkin F5U502 card with an > Agere/Lucent FW323-06 chip (OHCI-compliant). > > For that other stuff, I haven't had a chance to actually try all of it > yet, but > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/ > > appears to cover most of it. > > > I am seriously thinking of downgrading back to FC2. > > Try moving to FC3 from RHL 7.3. Feature shock all over the floor! ;-) > > > I think part of the problem is that much of the code is not completely > > reworked for FC2 (I pull most stuff from freshrpms and livna through yum.) > > Indeed. Binary Compatibility Is Hard(TM). > > > I think I'll reorganize my workstation so I can have 2 -- or more -- > > seperate distros/releases installed. > > Yah, I just did this, too. If nothing else, it will make my annual > practice of watching Debian fail miserably less intrusive. :-) > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
