Timo, I have exactly the *same* problem. Are you using UDEV?. What distro? Please read the archives for my *half* solution to the issue.
And *please* *please* CC me if you *do* find a solution, since this list isnt that helpful with our problem. Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi! > I have just upgraded from linux-2.6.15.3 with ivtv-0.4.2 to > linux-2.6.16.12 with ivtv-0.6.2. Before the upgrade, my two pvr 350's > worked fine. > > But I can't get the new ivtv to load the firmware. > > On each insertion of the ivtv module I get: > 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 > > I have the firmware files in the following directories: > /lib/modules/ /lib/firmware /lib/firmware/2.6.16.12 > /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware > > And their md5sums are: > 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa /lib/firmware/HcwMakoA.ROM > 305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68 /lib/firmware/ivtv-fw-dec.bin > d85cb08382395390dc95ac6ebc2205f9 /lib/firmware/ivtv-fw-enc.bin > 305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68 /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw > 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138 /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw > 0661f8b2693fe3123e6234557353eacc /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-init-mpeg.bin > 0661f8b2693fe3123e6234557353eacc /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg > 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa /lib/firmware/v4l-cx25840.fw > > So where do I have to put the firmware? The error message > "ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?" > isn't really helpful and provides no more information than the > previous messages (and the following messages have no new > information, either). Perhaps it would be possible to tell the user > where to put the firmware.... > > So what am I doing wrong? > > Timo > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
