Andreas Schaefer wrote: >Hi Geeks > >I am trying again to install IVTV on a SuSE 10.1 AMD64 box. This time >IVTV started to load but failed to find the firmware. On the user >mailing list there seems a lot of discussion about it but even the >latest tarball did not fix the problem. This is the DMESG output: > >ivtv: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. >ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== >ivtv: version 0.6.4 (development snapshot compiled on Sat Jul 8 15:48:05 >2006) loading >ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.16.13-4-default gcc-4.1 >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 Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 card (cx23415 based) >tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) >tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) >saa7115 2-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) >saa7127 2-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) >msp3400 2-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0) >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 0000:02:07.0 failed with error -12 >ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > >I put the firmware in '/usr/bin/hotplug/firmware' as well as the old >'/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware' directory. But neither seems to work. > >Any help - Andy > >P.S.: I could not figure out the right location of the hotplug firmware >directory and so I was wondering how IVTV obtains it and if it would not >be possible to print the location when IVTV cannot find the firmware. It >for sure would help many developers. > > > Another location to try: /lib/firmware (slackware location). Firmware location is distro determined. I have no idea where Suse is putting it. If you can find the hotplug scripts, you should find the location.
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