Alexandre Oliva wrote :
On Apr 28, 2004, Chris Kloiber <ckloiber(a)ckloiber.com> wrote:
> FireWire is currently busted in the latest kernel trees. IIRC it
> compiles but explodes wonderfully on insertion, taking the whole system
> and half the of the South East USA seacoast with it into oblivion. It
> will likely be turned on again when it works.
Which probably means it won't make it to FC2 final. I plan on
offering some work-arounds for Firewire users, sort of like I did for
FC1. My plan is to take the Firewire code that shipped with kernel
2.6.3, since that has worked quite reliably for me.
Eeek!!! Disable FireWire in the final release!? I hope you were joking, and
that whatever working version that existed last will be forward ported
since FireWire seems nearly vital to me.
I personally use it _very_ often to connect an external hard drive, as well
as my MiniDV camcorder with dvgrab/kino, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the
only one.
Matthias
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