Don Gafford wrote: >Bill, > >Did you check the file I talked about in the email I sent yesterday? > > The firmware howto (http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware) >talks about looking for a firmware.agent file that will have the >FIRMWARE_DIR line. Make sure to find that file and verify it matches >where the RPM put the firmware. Mine was in /etc/firmware on my 2.6.15 >kernel. It said my firmware directory is in /lib/firmware. On my >install, /lib/firmware has 4 symbolic links pointing to >/lib/modules/*. It looks like this: > > v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw -> /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin > v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw -> /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin > v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg -> /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg > v4l-cx25840.fw -> /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM > >The big thing is that firmware.agent file. That FIRMWARE_DIR line shows >you where the firmware files should be located. If you have them there >(or the symlinks) it _should_ work. > >-Don > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Smith >Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 6:00 PM >To: User discussion about IVTV >Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Error loading firmawre > >Axel Thimm wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:04:07PM -0500, Bill Smith wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>yum install ivtv-firmware >>>Setting up Install Process >>>Setting up repositories >>>Reading repository metadata in from local files >>>Parsing package install arguments >>>No Match for argument: ivtv-firmware >>>Nothing to do >>> >>>Am I missing something? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Sounds like you deactivated atrpms-stable. >> >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >- > > >>_______________________________________________ >>ivtv-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users >> >> >> >Weird, it was working... well it's fixed now (yum, anyway). Everything's > >updated. > >Same error. > >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 0000:02:05.0 failed with error -12 > > >I went through everything again, I'm getting nowhere fast on this one. > >-Bill > >_______________________________________________ >ivtv-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > >_______________________________________________ >ivtv-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > Firmware.agent says:
# directory of the firmware files FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware Contents of /lib/firmware: ls -al /lib/firmware total 428 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 18 20:41 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 12 04:12 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114688 Sep 22 2004 BCM2033-FW.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3245 Sep 22 2004 BCM2033-MD.hex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 Sep 22 2004 BCM-LEGAL.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Feb 17 08:22 v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw -> /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 262144 Feb 18 20:41 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb 18 20:31 v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg -> /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14264 Feb 12 13:42 v4l-cx25840.fw Symbolic links created by Axel's RPMs, v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw copied from /lib/modules/ when the reinstall of IVTV components yielded the same errors. And, finally, /lib/modules: ls -al /lib/modules total 724 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Feb 18 20:31 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 12 04:12 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 9 2005 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 20 2005 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 12 2005 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 18 21:01 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 18 20:32 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 8 2005 2.6.9-1.667 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 18 2005 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Dec 25 05:56 ivtv-fw-dec.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Dec 25 05:56 ivtv-fw-enc.bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 17 08:22 v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw -> ivtv-fw-dec.bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 17 08:22 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw -> ivtv-fw-enc.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 155648 Dec 29 08:06 v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg Thanks again, I figured you'd have given up by now :-). -Bill _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
