On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Stefan Richter <stef...@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 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.) > -- > Stefan Richter > -=====-==-=- ---= -=-=- > http://arcgraph.de/sr/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Kino-dev mailing list > kino-...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kino-dev > -- +-DRD-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
