Re: Firewire Sweex ExpressCard on Sony Vaio

[Stefan R. <st...@s5...>]

On Jun 02 Joan Pau Beltran wrote:
> We experienced data transmission problems when trying a Sweex Firewire 
> ExpressCard on a Sony Vaio VPCEB2S1E. The card is reported by lspci as:
> 05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3403.
> 
> More precisely when using a firewire camera, the images are displayed 
> mixed or with interferences. We did tests with several cameras, two 
> identical cards and two Vaio laptops (testing each card in every laptop) 
> and all give the same result with corrupted images.
> 
> However, the same cards with the same cameras work perfectly on another 
> laptop (a Toshiba one). In all three laptops we use Ubuntu 10.04. From 
> that I figure out that this is a problem of the ExpressCard controller 
> on Vaio laptops and not firewire related. But since I am not very 
> experienced with firewire, I may be wrong. So do you think it can be a 
> firewire problem? If not, do you know where should I report the problem?

Try lin...@vg....

Is Intel VT-d enabled on the Sony but not on the Toshiba?
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