is firewire broken in Debain?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any
problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some
kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore.

I am now using Debian Testing, KDE and kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686.

I see that firewire is now handled differently in the kernel and that
/dev/fw? devices are formed instead of /dev/raw1394. Since Kino demands
the latter, I have created a symbolic link /dev/raw1394 to /dev/fw0 (or
fw1, as the case may be).

I have these modules loaded:
$> lsmod | grep fire
firewire_sbp2           9575  0
firewire_net            9181  0
firewire_ohci          16477  0
firewire_core          30915  3 firewire_sbp2,firewire_net,firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t               1035  1 firewire_core
scsi_mod              101073  3 firewire_sbp2,sr_mod,libata


When I connect the DV camera to the firewire port, I get these error
messages in syslog (trimmed some irrelevant info for better formatting):
46:09 krnl [ 2422.285885] firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID
08004601024aca36, S100
46:09 krnl [ 2422.285897] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new
root=ffc1, gap_count=5
46:10 krnl [ 2423.440290] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
46:10 krnl [ 2423.940722] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new
root=ffc1, gap_count=5
46:11 krnl [ 2425.088778] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
46:12 krnl [ 2425.589206] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new
root=ffc1, gap_count=5
46:13 krnl [ 2426.737153] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
46:14 krnl [ 2427.878295] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
46:15 krnl [ 2429.019461] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
46:17 krnl [ 2430.160755] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
46:18 krnl [ 2431.301908] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
46:19 krnl [ 2432.443191] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent


Kino still doesn't work, I complains that raw1394 module is not
available. But those isochronous error message still trouble me. Anybody
now what is going on? How is one supposed to get around this problem?

Thanks.



-- 

Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding
newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just
filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without
ever having been read.