anaerin at gmail
Sep 17, 2007, 1:59 PM
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Re: yet another unable to open firmware thread...
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On 9/17/07, Mark Paulus <mark.paulus[at]verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
> Erik Trounce wrote:
> > Sorry for this, however I've read all of the other threads and none of
> > them seemed to solve my problem. I'm running Debian Etch with a custom
> > compiled kernel version 2.6.22.5. I followed the how-to as well as I
> > could, but no matter what I did I get the following in /var/log/dmesg:
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> > Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> > bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
> > bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> > ivtv: version 1.0.0 (2.6.22.5 mod_unload PENTIUM4 ) loading
> > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> > *ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)*
> > ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
> > ivtv0: Retry loading firmware
> > ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
> > ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
> > ivtv0: Error initializing firmware
> > ivtv0: Error -19 on initialization
> > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
> >
> >
> > I'm using udev 114, and hotplug has been removed/purged. The firware
> > was downloaded from here:
> > http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/firmware.tar.gz
> > and extracted into my /lib/firmware directory as well as
> > /usr/local/lib/firmware and /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. The
> > /lib/udev/hotplug.functions lists those three directories for
> > FIRMWARE_DIRS. I verified that v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw is the right size
> > (376836 bytes).
> >
> > I'd really appreciate some help with this.
> > Cheers,
> > Erik
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> What howto did you follow? (URLs are always good....)
> One thing to check is: Did you name things v4l (vee-four-ell),
> or v41 (vee-four-one)? Where did you actually wind up with the
> firmware files??? Could you do an 'ls -l' on your firmware
> files? or do a "locate v4l | grep '\.fw'"?
Could you also try:
rmmod ivtv
modprobe ivtv
And see if the second IVTV entry in dmesg loads the firmware AOK. If
so, you need to adjust which loads first, as ivtv is loading before
hotplug (So it can't load the firmware using hotplug).
--
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
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