Issues with TI XIO2213 chipset?

[Charlie M. <cha...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm trying to capture video using a Canopus/GreenValley ADVC110
through a 6-pin 1394a wire to a PCIe Firewire 1394/1394b card. I
believe it is a Syba.. model number is SD-PEX30009.  I noticed there
were documented problems with other TI chipsets so I was curious if
this one suffers the same fate. Or, more hopefully, this card is
supported by a more current Linux Kernel? To the best of my current
ability, I’ve narrowed the problem down to the card.  I have another
older computer with a PCI-32 Creative Audigy (circa ~2001) which has a
firewire - A port. It's running the server version of ubuntu marverick
but it properly creates the /dev/fw1 device when the ADVC110 is
plugged in and I've been able to get video from it with dvgrab 3.5.
One more thing, when I plug the ADVC110 into the "faulty" 1394 card, I
do get a power light... not sure if that will shed any more light on
the problem though.

Is there any hope for it?

Here is the supporting info from the computer that is not working:

charlie@onyx:~$ uname -a
Linux onyx 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC
2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

charlie@onyx:~$ lsmod | grep -e firewire -e 1394
firewire_ohci          24615  0
firewire_core          54327  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t               1739  1 firewire_core

charlie@onyx:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b2)
00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0a98 (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0
Controller (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0
Controller (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SATA Controller (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper
[Radeon HD 5700 Series]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon
HD 5700 Series]
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 PCI Express
to PCI Bridge (rev 01)
04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221
IEEE-1394b OHCI Controller (rev 01)
05:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller


When I unplug from the card and then re-plug the ADVC110 this message
appears in /var/log/syslog:

Dec 29 07:51:57 onyx kernel: [ 1836.998018] firewire_core: skipped bus
generations, destroying all nodes
Dec 29 07:51:58 onyx kernel: [ 1837.491329] firewire_core:
rediscovered device fw0


Charlie