On Sunday 26 August 2007 00:55:48 Mike Kehrli wrote: > I'm using 5 hauppauge pvr-150 cards on a newly installed Slackware > 12.0 system. I then upgraded the kernel from 2.6.21.5-smp that comes > with the distro to 2.6.22.4-smp, in order to take advantage of the > completion of the migration of the ivtv drivers to the mainline > kernel (very well done to all involved with that!). > > Slackware 12.0 has dropped the hotplug mechanism that I've > previously used to install the firmware. There is no longer a > firmware.agent file, that gives the correct firmware directory to put > the firmware files. I've now spent several days trying to get the > firmware to load. I've gone as far as putting the files in all > possible directories, creating the directories if needed, including: > > /lib/firmware > /lib/firmware/2.6.22.4-smp > /usr/local/lib/firmware > /lib/modules (i used both the old and new naming conventions in > this dir) /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware > > I'm sure I'm missing something dumb here. But I'm not a noob. I've > had these cards running with several previous linux kernel versions > and driver versions. In fact getting the drivers to work is pretty > quick for me now. However, I've been writing software for > controlling the cards, and I'm getting tired of upgrading my software > everytime another step is made towards migrating the driver to the > kernel, and want to be able to finalize that portion of my code. So > want to use the kernel version of the driver. > > Where does it look for the firmware when there is no hotplug > mechanism? The wiki says it looks in /lib/modules, but it's not > finding them there. > > Attached is dmesg > ivtv version: 1.0.1 > no module options > I've followed the directions in the General Purpose (Main) Howto at > ivtvdriver.org > > Thanks for looking at this for me, > > Mike Kehrli
Hi Mike,
I think it is possible nowadays to do it completely with udev rules, but
I never looked into that. I'm still using a little hotplug script that
does the loading, which I've attached.
Hope this helps,
Hans
hotplug
Description: application/shellscript
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