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thesecureguru at gmail

Nov 22, 2009, 11:40 AM

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Firewire Issues

Hello All,
Has anyone here successfully used a separate front-end to watch live tv on a
Firewire connected cable box? I can record shows just fine, and play them on
the remote front-end, but when I select watch live TV it times out with the
error "Error opening jump program file". Any idea?

Thanks,
Will


jarod at wilsonet

Jan 22, 2010, 3:08 PM

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Re: firewire issues [In reply to]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
> I am having issues with reliability from firewire captures these days
> running fedora 12.
>
> I looked in dmesg and have the following line spammed for a bunch of it:
>
> "firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 3c)"  The
> portion after tlabel varies.

I believe that means the cable box is still sending data after the
host has said 'please stop'.

> Any idea what could be going on here?

Maybe. Is that a DCT-6200 cable box? The upstream firewire maintainer
mentioned a DCT-6200-specific quirk to me on irc today, which needed a
work-around in the driver added...

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gaberubin at gmail

Jan 22, 2010, 3:12 PM

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Re: firewire issues [In reply to]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod [at] wilsonet> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
>> I am having issues with reliability from firewire captures these days
>> running fedora 12.
>>
>> I looked in dmesg and have the following line spammed for a bunch of it:
>>
>> "firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 3c)"  The
>> portion after tlabel varies.
>
> I believe that means the cable box is still sending data after the
> host has said 'please stop'.
>
>> Any idea what could be going on here?
>
> Maybe. Is that a DCT-6200 cable box? The upstream firewire maintainer
> mentioned a DCT-6200-specific quirk to me on irc today, which needed a
> work-around in the driver added...
>

It is a DCT-6200 (or some close variant to that). I have not had
these type of reliability issues in quite some time (only the
occasional missed recording), so unsure why it is all of a sudden
popping up.
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jarod at wilsonet

Jan 22, 2010, 3:15 PM

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Re: firewire issues [In reply to]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod [at] wilsonet> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
>>> I am having issues with reliability from firewire captures these days
>>> running fedora 12.
>>>
>>> I looked in dmesg and have the following line spammed for a bunch of it:
>>>
>>> "firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 3c)"  The
>>> portion after tlabel varies.
>>
>> I believe that means the cable box is still sending data after the
>> host has said 'please stop'.
>>
>>> Any idea what could be going on here?
>>
>> Maybe. Is that a DCT-6200 cable box? The upstream firewire maintainer
>> mentioned a DCT-6200-specific quirk to me on irc today, which needed a
>> work-around in the driver added...
>>
>
> It is a DCT-6200 (or some close variant to that).

Aha!

> I have not had
> these type of reliability issues in quite some time (only the
> occasional missed recording), so unsure why it is all of a sudden
> popping up.

Could be that the problem wasn't triggered until a recent change in
the firewire driver, as its still evolving (though quite stable and
feature-complete now).

I'll follow up with Stefan Richter about this one, haven't actually
looked at the fix yet... (actually not even sure if its been written
yet).

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jarod [at] wilsonet
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gaberubin at gmail

Jan 22, 2010, 3:18 PM

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Re: firewire issues [In reply to]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod [at] wilsonet> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod [at] wilsonet> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
>>>> I am having issues with reliability from firewire captures these days
>>>> running fedora 12.
>>>>
>>>> I looked in dmesg and have the following line spammed for a bunch of it:
>>>>
>>>> "firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 3c)"  The
>>>> portion after tlabel varies.
>>>
>>> I believe that means the cable box is still sending data after the
>>> host has said 'please stop'.
>>>
>>>> Any idea what could be going on here?
>>>
>>> Maybe. Is that a DCT-6200 cable box? The upstream firewire maintainer
>>> mentioned a DCT-6200-specific quirk to me on irc today, which needed a
>>> work-around in the driver added...
>>>
>>
>> It is a DCT-6200 (or some close variant to that).
>
> Aha!
>
>> I have not had
>> these type of reliability issues in quite some time (only the
>> occasional missed recording), so unsure why it is all of a sudden
>> popping up.
>
> Could be that the problem wasn't triggered until a recent change in
> the firewire driver, as its still evolving (though quite stable and
> feature-complete now).
>
> I'll follow up with Stefan Richter about this one, haven't actually
> looked at the fix yet... (actually not even sure if its been written
> yet).
>

Should I revert to an older kernel (with presumably an older driver)?
I know at one point I had to blacklist some firewire stuff because of
the new stack and I know that you have said that the new stack should
be stable. I can dig through my old emails to see what I did to
blacklist and determine if it still is (that was a long time ago and
perhaps my upgrade to Fedora 12 did away with the blacklisting;
however, I did not affirmatively do anything on that). Should I check
into that?
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gaberubin at gmail

Jan 29, 2010, 10:23 AM

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Re: firewire issues [In reply to]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod [at] wilsonet> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod [at] wilsonet> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin [at] gmail> wrote:
>>>>> I am having issues with reliability from firewire captures these days
>>>>> running fedora 12.
>>>>>
>>>>> I looked in dmesg and have the following line spammed for a bunch of it:
>>>>>
>>>>> "firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 3c)"  The
>>>>> portion after tlabel varies.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that means the cable box is still sending data after the
>>>> host has said 'please stop'.
>>>>
>>>>> Any idea what could be going on here?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe. Is that a DCT-6200 cable box? The upstream firewire maintainer
>>>> mentioned a DCT-6200-specific quirk to me on irc today, which needed a
>>>> work-around in the driver added...
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is a DCT-6200 (or some close variant to that).
>>
>> Aha!
>>
>>> I have not had
>>> these type of reliability issues in quite some time (only the
>>> occasional missed recording), so unsure why it is all of a sudden
>>> popping up.
>>
>> Could be that the problem wasn't triggered until a recent change in
>> the firewire driver, as its still evolving (though quite stable and
>> feature-complete now).
>>
>> I'll follow up with Stefan Richter about this one, haven't actually
>> looked at the fix yet... (actually not even sure if its been written
>> yet).
>>
>
> Should I revert to an older kernel (with presumably an older driver)?
> I know at one point I had to blacklist some firewire stuff because of
> the new stack and I know that you have said that the new stack should
> be stable.  I can dig through my old emails to see what I did to
> blacklist and determine if it still is (that was a long time ago and
> perhaps my upgrade to Fedora 12 did away with the blacklisting;
> however, I did not affirmatively do anything on that).  Should I check
> into that?
>

I wanted to check in on this again. The problem has become more
pronounced over the last week where I can only get one firewire
recording (sometimes not even that) and then the firewire connection
goes to hell until I reboot. Any idea what could be causing this?

As another data point, even though myth can access and change the
channel, i get this error with firewire_tester
[mythtv [at] localhos ~]$ firewire_tester -B -n 0
Failed to create new raw1394 handle on port 0

And it appears port 0 is where I should be testing:

[mythtv [at] localhos ~]$ plugreport
Host Adapter 0
==============

Node 0 GUID 0x001e46fffe3057b3
------------------------------
oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376
iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2

Node 1 GUID 0xb35730fefe3057b3
------------------------------
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
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