Re: Fedora too cutting edge?

[Jima <jima beer tclug org>]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Notice how a preliminary fix is expected for 2.6.25, which probably means 
> that this will still be broken in Fedora 9, notice that the breakage was 
> introduced in Fedora 7, so thats 18 months worth of broken firewire camera 
> support (iow most digital video cameras).

 That seems like a bold, and IMO, unsubstantiated claim.  I managed to get 
a Firewire camera to work using the new stack a couple weeks ago.  I had a 
bit of trouble, which lead me to discussions that came to the same general 
conclusion that you outlined in your email, but then I tried chown'ing the 
/dev/fw-* (or whatever) devices to my user, and things miraculously 
worked.
 This was on kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8; I hadn't gotten around to rebooting 
that box in a while (nor have I tried the camera since rebooting to 
2.6.23.9-85.fc8).
 I won't deny, however, getting burned a time or three by Fedora's 
early-adopter practices. :-)

     Jima