Firewire is NOT dead (at least not yet)
Been a while since I posted but wanted to grab some old DV files from the Video Camera. A lot of peple report firewire support being broken in many linux distros, but figuring out how to login to my old blog was a tad bit harder than getting ieee1394 interfaces working again on my linux system! Steps for future reference 1. Install Ubuntu Studio . Note: While I've been using LinuxMint for many years, I felt like a change anyway. 2. Set Up Firewire IRQ Priorities. Confirmed changes on my system: cat /etc/default/rtirq RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc firewire snd usb i8042" RTIRQ_NONE_THREADED="rtc firewire snd" 3. Reboot - Here's output of dmesg and lspci $dmesg |grep firewire [ 1.603804] firewire_ohci 0000:04:09.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x41 [ 2.110941] firewire_core 0000:04:09.0: created device fw0: GUID 0011066600000215, S400 [ 90.935327] firewire_core 0000:04:09.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap