Yes, coldplug is emerged and it running at the default runlevel.  I
double check the firmware names and directory locations, but the
firmware is still not found.
Reid

On 3/13/06, Nick Rosier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> On 3/13/06, dill weed <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > Sorry if this is a question that has already been asked or if this is the
> > wrong list, howerver, I can't find a workable solution and am looking here
> > for help. Anyways, I'm trying to get the firmware loaded so that my capture
> > cards work.
> >
> >  A little about my system. I have one PVR-250 and one PVR-500 in my system
> > I'm also running an up to date Gentoo system with a 2.6.15 kernel. I know
> > the cards work, because they worked with earlier versions of the ivtv
> > driver. But because of other issues with the computer I went back to a
> > Windows system until different drivers (ndiswrapper) became more refined and
> > didn't keep locking up my system.
> >
> >  Anyways, I remember that ivtv drivers use to look for firmware in the
> > /lib/modules directory, but that has since moved to a hotplug system. Not
> > sure if that is good or bad, but it is causing me to pull my hair out, and I
> > don't have much left as it is. It seems that Gentoo uses udev as default to
> > load drivers upon booting. If udev doesn't have the proper rules its suppose
> > to "switch/call" hotplug to finish the process. However, this doesn't seem
> > to be working properly though. When ever I load ivtv into the kernel I get
> > this:
> >
> >  (start
> > snip)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> >  ivtv: version 0.4.3 (tagged release) loading
> >  ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 preempt K7 gcc-3.4
> >  ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
> >  ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> >  ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
> >  ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based)
> >  ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) ->
> > IRQ 5
> >  tveeprom: ivtv version
> >  tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32062, rev = C199, serial# = 8115600
> >  tveeprom: tuner = TCL 2002N 5H (idx = 99, type = 50)
> >  tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
> >  tveeprom: audio processor = MSP3445 (type = c)
> >  tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13)
> >  ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
> >  tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
> >  ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
> >  saa7115 0-0021: ivtv driver
> >  saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> >  ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
> >  msp3400 0-0040: ivtv driver
> >  msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP3445G-B8 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio
> > mode=simpler
> >  msp3400 0-0040: msp34xxg daemon started
> >  ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP3445G-B8, addr=40]
> >  ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> >  ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
> >  ivtv0 warning: failed loading encoder firmware
> >  ivtv0 warning: Error loading firmware -3!
> >  ivtv0: Error -3 initializing firmware.
> >  ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization
> >  ivtv: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error -12
> >
> >  (end snip, happens for both all
> > cards)--------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Supposedly hotplug is looking for firmware in /lib/firmware according to
> > /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent, but for some reason it doesn't see it. If I do
> > this "cat "/sbin/hotplug" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug" then ivtv loads
> > perfectly. Upon rebooting /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug reverts back to
> > "/sbin/udevsend". I've tried the workaround in this post
> > http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=914 , but it
> > seems that udev-079 (which I'm using) already has this fix incorporated into
> > it. I'm at a loss at what to do, and my wife is getting more anxious then
> > ever to her PVR back. Is there anyone out ther also running Gentoo or
> > running into a similar problem as this and has a fix for it?
> >
> >  Another question, what caused the developers to switch to hotplug, rather
> > then keeping the firmware located in /lib/modules? Is there a make switch
> > that we can use to when compiling the ivtv driver so that it looks in
> > /lib/modules again rather then using hotplug?
>
> Did you emerge coldplug and add it to the default runlevel? I had a
> friend who was having simular problems. They got solved after he
> emerged coldplug.
>
> N.
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