On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:36 +0100, Steve Firth wrote: > > Hi Andy, > Thanks for the clarification, I now have a better idea of what > you're trying to achieve here. > > I think that the new repo worked but I need to do some more work. > > Compilation/installation worked fine. I see /dev/dvb/adaptor*/...... > devices mounted correctly. But I cannot tune > in one of my cards I get a "No tables" and timeout error on the one > card. Hope I haven't popped it earlier! > > I did see video on the second tuner card, but there was no sound. I > think I now have some problems unrelated to your firmware trials > which I need to address, I'll take a more detailed look as soon as > possible. > > Question: How can I be sure that I'm now really using the latest > firmware not the original ones?
The original v4l-cx23418-* firmware files are still nedded. To see if the new, additional dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw file is being used, hmm.... On my kernel, the kernel would emit something like: "firmware: requesting dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw" at the "info" level in dmesg or /var/log/messages. And following that, you *should not* see something like this in dmesg or /var/log/messages being emitted by the cx18 driver: "Unable to open firmware file dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw" "Firmware dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw has a bad size: 100 bytes" "The MPC718 board variant with the MT352 DVB-T demodualtor will not work without it" "Run 'linux/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware mpc718' if you need the firmware" "frontend initialization failed" Regards, Andy > Steve > > > ----- Original message ----- > Sent: 2009/07/01 20:37:17 > Subject: Re:Re: [ivtv-devel] cx18: MPC718 MT352 "firmware" load needs > testing (Re: Acer aspire idea 500?) > > Andy Walls wrote: > > Those latest changes look for the "dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw" file > to > > load and initialize the MT352 DVB-T demodulator chip. > > > > It has to be done this way to avoid any software license problems. > The > > information to properly initialize the MT352 is not publicly > available, > > and we musn't hardcode into the Linux kernel an initialization > sequence > > extracted from the Windows driver. > > > > What you have tested previously and have reported as working, > *cannot* > > be included in the Linux kernel. These latest changes in my > cx18-mpc718 > > repo *can* be included in the Linux kernel. > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
