i recently installed a diamond xtremetv pvr550 card. after reading through the wiki and other sources google found for me, i'm still stumped.
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.3.7 (h) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected YUAN PG600/DIAMOND PVR-550 (CX FALCON2) card (iTVC16 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=eeprom, addr=50] tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] cx25840: firmware read failed ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840[50], addr=44] ivtv: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC. ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 ivtv warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011!!!! ivtv: Create DMA encoder MPEG stream: 0 x 32768 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Create DMA encoder YUV stream: 0 x 10800 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Create DMA encoder VBI stream: 0 x 17472 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Create DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 0 x 4608 buffers (0KB total) tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: Initialized YUAN PG600/DIAMOND PVR-550 (CX FALCON2), card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== "cx25840: firmware read failed" i've used the firmware rom images, audio and video, available on the cd. ls -l /lib/modules/ total 901 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 472 Aug 29 12:14 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 -r-xr-xr-x 1 chris users 376836 Oct 28 2003 cxfalcon.rom -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Aug 28 16:56 ivtv-fw-dec.bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 28 18:04 ivtv-fw-enc.bin -> cxfalcon.rom -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Aug 28 16:56 ivtv-fw-enc.bin.OLD -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13837 Aug 28 17:15 makoaud.rom thank you for any help. Chris Cobb ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Ivtv-users mailing list Ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-users