[PlanetCCRMA] fc6/7: new rt kernel; fc6/7: updated libgig

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 21:26 -0500, grae wrote:
> Hi Fernando,
> 
> I had some issues before trying to run firewire on fc7 and they were
> resolved by installing a libavc1394 and libraw1394 from
> ezplanet-updates repo.
> 
> After installing this new kernel my firewire again does not work with
> the same error message as before:
> 
> "Ieee1394Service::initialize: Could not get 1394 handle: No such file
> or directory
> Is ieee1394 and raw1394 driver loaded?"

Hmmm, sorry to hear about this happening again. 

The new kernel does not have any differences in terms of firewire
support, I'm still using the old firewire stack. 

> I receive the error regardless of whether I'm using the this or the
> previous kernel.  Basically I'm dead in the water. ;)

That's weird because I don't see how installing a kernel could change
the underlying libraries. The libavc/libraw upgrade you installed is
just a couple of libraries, they should stay the same when other things
are installed (I'm not saying you don't have a problem :-) 

I just donwloaded the two replacement source packages and libraw1394 is
indeed different - the original Fedora package has a patch for the
"juju" firewire stack which has been removed in the alternative package.
The libavc1394 package has no changes except for the release number
change, it just probably needs to be rebuilt with the old unpatched
libraw1394. 

> Thoughts?

Could you check the libavc1394 and libraw1394 packages to make sure you
have the modified ones still installed?

"rpm -q libavc1394 libraw1394" should print the versions. 

Could you also check the integrity of the packages with "rpm -V package"
to see if there has been a change?

-- Fernando


> On 7/5/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Hi all, some kernel updates:
> >
> > fc6/fc7: kernel-rt-2.6.21-0182.rt19.1
> >
> > based in 2.6.21.5 and Ingo's 2.6.21.5-rt19. I had to skip rt18 as it had
> > problems with the udev startup sequence. Many thanks to Ingo, Thomas
> > Gleixner - who fixed the bug - and Carsten Emde who provided the traces
> > that made it possible to debug it.
> >
> > Seems to work nicely in my tests (rt17 _sometimes_ had the udev problems
> > as well in some of the hardware configurations we have, which you may
> > have seen as delays in the boot sequence).
> >
> > fc6/fc7: the stock 2.6.21.5 kernel does not include the ilw3945 wireless
> > driver that is included as a patch in the stock Fedora kernel... and my
> > new laptop needs something, so I created kernel modules for the ipw3945
> > driver, its firmware and the regulatory daemon (the last two rebuilds of
> > what freshrpms provides - with thanks to Matthias)[*].
> >
> > If you want to test this, "yum install kmod-ipw3945 ipw-firmware" and
> > all necessary packages should be installed. This kernel module will only
> > work with the rt kernel packages.
> >
> > On the same vein there's also a bleeding edge ALSA kernel modules
> > package. If installed ("yum install kmod-alsa") it will provide a very
> > recent hg (it is a version control system used byt the ALSA project)
> > snapshot of the alsa kernel drivers, which is newer than what comes
> > bundled with 2.6.21.5. I wish I did not have to do this, but with the
> > new kernel modules sound in my new laptop actually works. If you are
> > having soundcard problems with very new hardware this may help.
> >
> > fc6/fc7: updated libgig to version 3.1.1
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > -- Fernando
> >
> > [*] there are at least three widely used ways to package kernel modules,
> > I used "kmod" which is what is used officialy in Fedora and Livna,
> > Freshrpms uses "dkms" and ATrpms use "kmdl"... let's _not_ argue about
> > which one is better, please :-)