Julian Edwards wrote: > Hi folks > > I use ATrpms for my ivtv binaries for my PVR250. I just upgraded my FC5 > box from 2.6.17 and ivtv 0.7.1 to 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 with > ivtv-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5-0.8.2-123.fc5.at. > > On boot, ivtv bails out with these errors: > Feb 9 16:59:56 mythbox kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware > (262144 bytes) > [snip.....] > Feb 9 16:59:56 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: 1000 ms time out waiting > for firmware > Feb 9 16:59:56 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: Failed api call 0x00000080 > with result 0xfffffff0 > Feb 9 16:59:56 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: Encoder firmware dead! > Feb 9 16:59:56 mythbox kernel: ivtv0: Error initializing firmware > Feb 9 16:59:56 mythbox kernel: ivtv0: Error -19 on initialization > > If I modprobe -r ivtv then modprobe ivtv again it has a different error: > Feb 9 17:02:18 mythbox kernel: firmware_loading_store: unexpected value (0) > Feb 9 17:02:18 mythbox kernel: ivtv0: unable to open firmware > v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 262144 bytes) > Feb 9 17:02:18 mythbox kernel: ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the > hotplug firmware directory? > Feb 9 17:02:18 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: failed loading encoder > firmware > Feb 9 17:02:18 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: Error loading firmware -3! > Feb 9 17:02:18 mythbox kernel: ivtv0: Error -3 initializing firmware. > > If I remove it and modprobe again, it works! This sequence is 100% > repeatable. > (full message output shown below)
Can you try and remove the old firmware and download the "recommended" firmware from [1]? If that does not work it looks similar to the problem people had with udev. See [2] for the 2 udev hang fixes. Greets Sander [1]http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/firmware.tar.gz [2] http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#Lock_up_when_loading_ivtv_module_.28udev_related.29 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
