Hi All. Well if nothing, this problem of the ivtv modprobe not loading the firmware required by the DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T range of cards is certainly keeping me reading from all over the net :).
What follows is what I have found out: A> The original working ivtv driver code was from URL: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~chrisp/Linux-DVB/DVICO/ by Christopher Pascoe (no longer available - traveling the world). The driver worked well and I have three cards (2 x PCI and 1 x USB) running with excellent performance for concurrent five streams of digital video. This ivtv driver used the /etc/modprobe.conf file to specify aliases "alias major-char-81-0 ivtv" directives to help the modprobe to load the correct driver and its applicable firmware (located at /lib/firmware) to load and run. My original system (same hardware) was using OpenSUSE 10.3 B> Now I am running Mythbuntu 8.04 -- udev release 117, ivtv version 1.3.0, I have discovered that I have to build my own udev.rules (they are not provided) to get the "modprobe ivtv" to correctly load the firmware into the applicable digital tuner. aka: xc3028/xc2028 + zl10353. I have tried the following udev.rules that I made to do this, but unfortunately its not successful. { File /etc/udev/rules.d/10-ivtv.rules } KERNEL=="dvb.adapter0", NAME=="%k", DRIVERS=="ivtv", ATTRS{serial}=="0000ebb0", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN +="/lib/udev/firmware_helper" KERNEL=="dvb.adapter1", NAME=="%k", DRIVERS=="ivtv", ATTRS{serial}=="00006bb0", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN +="/lib/udev/firmware_helper" I wrote these rules based on what I could gleam from URL: http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and by going through the source code of "hg clone http://linuxtv.org/ hg/~pascoe/xc-test/ " which was the working driver source for <A> above. According to the Christopher Pascoe source code derivative the xc3028/ xc2028 digital tuner firmware is loaded by the "/lib/udev/ firmware_helper" program as you can see describe in my rules above. The ATTRS(serial) is the serial number for each card determined by looking at sys tree using "udevinfo". Can anyone can assist with advising what I have done incorrectly? Alternatively, if anyone has a working ivtv udev rule I would be most appreciative. Thanks. Grahame. Umm... So close, yet so far from getting the new mythbuntu 8.04 running with these cards. ;( _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
