castor wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to get my Hauppauge PVR 150 Card working after a new Gentoo > installation (before this it worked quite well)... > > After installing Gentoo I emerged ivtv following this howto: > http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Gentoo > > Unfortunately my system froze while trying to modprobe ivtv for the > first time. I did some research and found out, that this has to be a > problem with newer versions of udev and hotplug (25 & 26 in the > troubleshooting guide). > > i am using the following versions: > udev-104-r9 (104-r11 did the same) > hotplug-20040923-r2 > hotplug-base-20040401 > ivtv-0.9.1 (0.10.0 did the same) > pvr-firmware-20061007 (20070217 did the same) > > lspci gave me this: > 01:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > > so, first I commented out this line in my 50-udev.rules: > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ENV{FIRMWARE}=="*", > RUN="/sbin/firmware_helper", OPTIONS="last_rule" > > modprobe ivtv caused the same freeze as before. > > after this, i reactivated the 50-udev.rule line from above and moved the > firmware.agent file out of my /etc/hotplug directory. > > as a result my system did not freeze anymore but the pvr-firmware was > not being loaded correctly. this is what dmesg said: > > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== > ivtv: version 0.9.1 (tagged release) loading > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 SMP mod_unload K8 REGPARM > ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between > ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with > ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 19 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 19 (level, > low) -> IRQ 19 > ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) > ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 262144 bytes) > 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. > Trying to free already-free IRQ 19 > ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization > ivtv: probe of 0000:01:0a.0 failed with error -12 > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > I have so trouble too, on my gentoo after updating kernel and ivtv(and removing coldplug): ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.9.1 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 SMP mod_unload K8 4KSTACKS ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected GotView PCI DVD2 Deluxe card (cx23416 based) ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 262144 bytes) 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 0000:01:04.0 failed with error -12 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
my config: ivtv - 0.9.1 udev - 104-r11 I don`t know what to do. Are there any way to load firmware manually? _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
