Re: ieee1394 errors on attempted insmod

From: Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap_at_osdl.org)
Date: 01/13/05

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    Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:02:10 -0800
    To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
    
    

    Gene Heskett wrote:
    > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 16:32, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
    >
    >>Gene Heskett wrote:
    >>
    >>>On Wednesday 12 January 2005 13:56, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>Gene Heskett wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>>Greetings;
    >>>>>
    >>>>>I just bought a Sony HandyCam DCR-TRV460, which has both firewire
    >>>>>and usb ports.
    >>>>>
    >>>>>But I couldn't seem to open a path to it using usb, so I plugged
    >>>>>in an old firewire card that has the TI-Lynx chipset on it. Its
    >>>>>recognized (apparently) by both dmesg and kudzu, but although I'd
    >>>>>turned on all the 1394 stuff as modules when I got ready to plug
    >>>>>the card in and rebuilt my 2.6.10-ac8 kernel, kudzu didn't load
    >>>>>any of them, and when I try to, I'm getting "-1 Unknown Symbol in
    >>>>>module" errors.
    >>>>>
    >>>>>Probably an attack of dumbass, but I'd appreciate any help that
    >>>>>can be tossed my way. ATM I'm rebuilding again with the base
    >>>>>module built in.
    >
    > [...]
    >
    >>>Here is a snip from an lspci -v:
    >>>
    >>>01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments FireWire
    >>>Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
    >>> Subsystem: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8010
    >>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
    >>> Memory at db004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
    >>> Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    >>> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1
    >>
    >>That's not a PCILynx controller AFAIK, it seems that the
    >>ohci1394 driver is handling it.
    >
    >
    > Or miss-handling it as the case may be :-)
    >
    >>>2 or 3 years ago when I was first playing with this card, it said
    >>>it needed the pcilynx module, but I think the raw device is
    >>>grabbing it first. Is that kosher, and shouldn't I have a few
    >>>more devices beside raw1394 in my devs directory?
    >>
    >>No idea on that one. Are all of the modules loading OK now?
    >
    >
    > It would appear so. I think now the question is, do I need some
    > aliases setup in my modprobe.conf in order to force the correct
    > loading sequence?
    >
    >
    >>>Do you know where I can find an rpm for gscanbus, I cannot make
    >>>the tarball build here, possibly a compiler error coupled with
    >>>what I'd call poorly formed src codes. gcc is 3.3.3 here.
    >>
    >>I see some here:
    >>http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gscanbus&submit=S
    >>earch+... The ones listed are all for MandrakeLinux.
    >
    >
    > I saw those, never been able to use a mndrk rpm here.

    No surprise there.

    >>Or post the gscanbus build errors (to the
    >>linux1394-devel@lists.sf.net mailing list).
    >
    > Did that, rather quiet list.

    Yes, it is.

    > I fixed it so it would make but its only
    > working with the camera turned off! If I turn it on, the shell that
    > launches it soon fills up with "resource temporarily unavailable"
    > messages.
    >
    > Humm, my fix might need another. Do long self allocating strings
    > still need a terminating \0 in C, inside the dbl quotes? OTOH, I've
    > not seen either error string actually spit out (yet). I've been
    > under the impression that most modern compilers handle that silently
    > and well.

    C automatically terminates quoted strings with a nul char.

    > With the camera turned off, I can get this out of gscanbus:
    > ---------------
    > SelfID Info
    > -----------
    > Physical ID: 0
    > Link active: Yes
    > Gap Count: 63
    > PHY Speed: S400
    > PHY Delay: <=144ns
    > IRM Capable: Yes
    > Power Class: -1W
    > Port 0: Not connected
    > Port 1: Not connected
    > Port 2: Not connected
    > Init. reset: Yes
    >
    > CSR ROM Info
    > ------------
    > GUID: 0x0050625600001065
    > Node Capabilities: 0x000083C0
    > Vendor ID: 0x00005062
    > Unit Spec ID: 0x0000005E
    > Unit SW Version: 0x00000001
    > Model ID: 0x00000000
    > Nr. Textual Leafes: 1
    >
    > Vendor: KOUWELL ELECTRONICS CORP. **
    > Textual Leafes:
    > Linux - ohci1394
    >
    > AV/C Subunits
    > -------------
    > N/A
    > ----------------eof-----------------
    >
    > With it turned on, I get the same report but it takes lots of time,
    > and its locked up, whereas with the camera off, the report above is
    > instant.
    >
    > I going to shut down long enough to verify the chips on that card,
    > just to satisfy my own itch. I only have one, and it actually came
    > in a Digital Research box several years ago, staples had a 20 dollar
    > bill on it and I figured what the hey... I suppose I could drag out
    > the cd, but thats all winderz stuff, less than helpfull to an anti-M$
    > like me.
    >
    > One other item that might bear, the card claims S400 speed, but the
    > camera only claims S100, is the protocol not auto-negotiating?

    I dunno, I still suggest asking on the linux1394 mailing list.

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    ~Randy
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