Re: Kino in Debian

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Stefan Richter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> David Liontooth wrote:
>> Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438336 is
>> preventing kino from entering squeeze.

I can see from the versions listing on the bug page that the problem
is that this version of Debian does not have a recent enough version
of libraw1394. You need at least version 2.0.0.

>> I noticed Stefan Richter posting here -- is it really the case that kino
>> can't use the new firewire stack?
>
> The newer (now not so "new" anymore) firewire kernel drivers work very
> well for applications like Kino and dvgrab now.  They actually did for

Of course, there will still be situations where some hardware/device
combinations work in one subsystem but not another due to subtle
interoperability bugs.

> quite a while now.  But I at least did not push distributors to move to
> the new drivers for reasons that were unrelated to Kino et al (IPv4,
> DVB, audio support --- all solved in recent kernel releases now).
>
> We have some information about this topic, targeted towards
> distributors/ packagers and advanced users:
> http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
>
> Furthermore, the release notes give a detailed view on which
> improvements and fixes came in which release:
> http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Release_Notes
> http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Release_Notes_-_Libraries
>
> For a works-out-of-the-box experience, kernel 2.6.31 (or later) and udev
> 144 or later are very much recommended.  At these versions, proper
> mechanisms and policies for user access to FireWire devices arrived in
> mainline udev.  (Somewhat late, sorry for that.  Other rules which are
> not part of mainline udev can achieve the same with older kernels, as
> documented in the kernel wiki.)
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> Stefan Richter
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