Thanks Nick. I don't understand much about how things get loaded but, before I changed my initial ramdisk to include loading the ivtv drivers, everything worked as in Jarod Wilson's HOWTO. I haven't tried putting the old image back and trying to see if I can watch TV using the 350's TV-OUT. But I bet it will work. My guess is the error's caused by the initial loading of the ivtv-fb using the modified ramdisk causes the error you are pointing to. Either way, I will check tonight to see if the firmware exists in the hotplug directory. Correct me if I am wrong, my understanding is that, while the initrd is being loaded and executed, the file systems are not yet mounted. So, the firmware not being in the hotplug directory should not be an issue at-least at that point. But I could be totally wrong as I don't have much knowledge about this. Will post again after verifying the firmware being in the hotplug directory.
Praveen On Mar 23, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Nick wrote: > On 23/03/06, Praveen Shenoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I searched the mythtv users and ivtv list wiout a definite solution >> so far. So, decided to post it. I am installed mythtv as per wilsonet >> howto and worked perfectly fine untill I rebooted the system with the >> initrd change. The boot process pauses for a long while and then >> complains like: >> >> ivtv-osd:ivtv_fb_card parameter is out of range valid range (0--1) >> insmod: error inserting /lib/ivtv-fb.ko -1 operation not permitted >> >> The output of the /var/log/messages looks like below. If anybody has >> already solved this problem, I would really appreciate sharing the >> solution. > > snipped > >> Mar 22 11:58:32 localhost kernel: ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l- >> cx2341x-enc.fw >> Mar 22 11:58:32 localhost kernel: ivtv0: did you put the firmware in >> the hotplug firmware directory? >> Mar 22 11:58:32 localhost kernel: ivtv0 warning: failed loading >> encoder firmware >> Mar 22 11:58:32 localhost kernel: ivtv0 warning: Error loading >> firmware -3! >> Mar 22 11:58:32 localhost kernel: ivtv0: Error -3 initializing >> firmware. > > Is the ivtv firmware available in your initrd boot image? I would > guess it isn't from these messages. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > 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
