On Friday 02 December 2005 22:58, Brendan Hoar wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > You should put the firmware in the hotplug directory. See:
> > http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware#Kernels_with_firmware_
> >hotplug
>
> cat /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent gives
>
> ...
> # directories with the firmware files
> FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware /lib/modules" ...
>
> So, /lib/firmware *and* /lib/modules should be valid, as should the
> other two.
>
> Also, I neglected to mention earlier that I already tried three of
> those four that, in that /lib/modules has all seven files:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al /lib/modules
> total 1248
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 2 13:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Oct 18 21:47 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 2 13:49 2.6.13.2-chw-3
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14264 Sep 13 01:42 HcwMakoA.ROM
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 20 2004 extra
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Nov 28 00:16 ivtv-fw-dec.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Nov 28 00:16 ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155648 Oct 9 18:53 ivtv_init_mpeg.bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 22 05:25 misc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Dec 2 13:13 v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Dec 2 13:13 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14264 Dec 2 13:13 v4l-cx25840.fw
>
>
> and /lib/firmware and /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware have all six except
> for HcwMako.ROM. For completeness, I just added HcwMakoA.ROM to the
> last two, then add all seven files to the final directory of the four
> listed that I haven't tried, which I had to create:
> /usr/local/lib/firmware
>
> Hmmm...I just noticed that the firmware.agent I have in KnoppMyth
> R5A26 uses a slightly different variable than the wiki:
>
> "FIRMWARE_DIRS"
>
> but the example given in the wiki uses:
>
> "FIRMWARE_DIR"
>
> which is singular vs. the plural of the above.
>
> So, I added the following in firmwrae.agent, above FIRMWARE_DIRS:
> FIRMWARE_DIR = "/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware"
>
> And rebooted.
>
> To recap:
>
> I have all seven files in all four directories listed in
> FIRMWARE_DIRS. I added a new line FIRMWARE_DIR pointing to just one
> of the directories.
>
> And I still see the problem with the firmware not loading.
You're not using the ivtv_efw, etc. module options, are you? Please
remove any such options. If that still doesn't help then update to the
latest svn, try again and mail the IVTV log.
BTW, v4l-cx25840.fw is not needed (the PVR350 doesn't have that chip).
Hans
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