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Package: ivtv-utils
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: minor
Hello,
After recently purchasing a card supported by the IVTV driver, I've been
installing ivtv-utils and similar to get things up and running. Documentation
in ivtv-utils says (in file /usr/share/doc/ivtv-utils/README.Debian):
The IVTV drivers require firmware which can be obtained by installing
the firmware-ivtv package from non-free. (previously the firmware package was
called ivtv-firmware.)
However, as far as I can tell, neither packages named firmware-ivtv nor
ivtv-firmware are currently available in Debian lenny, squeeze or sid, in
main contrib or non-free. Downloading and installing the firmware as suggested
on the IVTV Wiki at http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware causes
everything to work correctly. Would it be more sensible to point people either
to that URL or directly to the tarball at
http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/ivtv-firmware.tar.gz in the
ivtv-utils documentation?
All the best,
-Dave.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (550, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (450, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ivtv-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libconfig-inifiles-perl 2.47-1 Read .ini-style configuration file
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvideo-ivtv-perl 0.13-6+b1 Perl extension for using V4l2 in t
ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages ivtv-utils recommends:
ii devscripts 2.10.47 scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii fakeroot 1.12.2 Gives a fake root environment
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
ii unzip 5.52-12 De-archiver for .zip files
ivtv-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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a new firmware-nonfree source package which builds a firmware-ivtv deb
is currently sitting in the NEW queue and will hopefully enter sid soon.
I don't think any change is required to the ivtv docs or packaging so
closing this bug.
Ian.
--
Ian Campbell
"The Computer made me do it."
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