Re: Something broke :-( Re: fwcontrol update

Sean Bruno <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.firewire
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dieter wrote:
>>>>> I notice that it doesn't print every generation.
>>>>> I notice that the node_id changes.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> This alarms me quite a bit.  I didn't think there was anyway for the 
>>>> generation to change
>>>> without the log message being spit out.  Interesting.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Perhaps there is some register on the controller chip that
>>> affects receiving data but not sending it, and isn't getting
>>> initialized.  Perhaps the controller chip thinks it is receiving
>>> bad data, and flags an error or requests a bus reset?
>>>
>>> If the resets are happening faster than the printf can run,
>>> maybe the data (generation number) changes underneath the printf,
>>> much like ps/top don't get a pure snapshot?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hrm...First, let's try and get your camera working again.
>>
>> I would like you to try and connect your camera to a Mac, Linux or 
>> Windows box and try to get it working again.
>>     
>
> As far as I can tell the camera is working fine.
>
> For example I can send DV data *to* the camera over firewire and it
> happily converts it to analog and ships it out s-video to the TV.
>
> And the data *from* the camera is recognized as DV:
>
> 	fwcontrol_prev -u 1 -R camera.dv
> 	Detected DV format on input.
> 	(EAGAIN)
> 	(EAGAIN)
> 	(EAGAIN)
>
> The camera was of course powered off while I tested the argument
> range checks.  And I only ran tests that seemed safe.  I'm not
> *completely* insane.
>   
So, is you camera working perfectly at this time?  I.e. with old 
fwcontrol, everything is fine?  My concern was that somehow we had 
triggered a bit in the firewire hardware(most likely the camera) that 
caused you camera to be non-functional.



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