On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:15 +0200, Federico Allegretti wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to install ivtv drivers on an old AMD Duron 650 machine to > drive a pvr350 like a video playback server. > > Installed in a mirror hd enviroment a debian 6.02 and everything seems > ok. >
> Now i suppose i need to download firmware files and put them in the > correct folder, BUT i cannot found correct firmware AND cannot find an > "HOTPLUG" directory :( It is usually /lib/firmware on Fedora and RedHat. > Tryied to get firmware from there: > http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/ivtv-firmware.tar.gz > BUT "tar xvf ivtv-firmware.tar.gz" reports an invalid tar file > (italian language distro): > tar: Questo non sembra un archivio tar > tar: Passaggio alla prossima intestazione > tar: Uscita con stato di fallimento in base agli errori precedenti The ftp server gzip's the already gzipped files that I uploaded. I haven't bothered to figure out how to fix that yet. To get around the problem, do something like this: $ gunzip -v ivtv-firmware.tar.gz $ mv ivtv-firmware.tar ivtv-firmware.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf ivtv-firmware.tar.gz Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
