I am running vanilla 2.6.27 as well. -devsk
----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Isely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:33:36 PM Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] pvrusb2 and 2.6.27 - No device On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Bent Lykkebo wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Mike Isely wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, devsk wrote: > >> > Mike, > >> > > >> > It seems like 2.6.27 has a version of pvrusb2 which doesn't work > >> > anymore. The module loads but no device is file is created in /dev/v4l. > >> > I am using sys-fs/udev-130-r1. > >> > > >> > Only thing seen in dmesg on loading of the module is > >> > > >> > [ 14.918314] usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2 > >> > [ 14.918317] pvrusb2: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner : > >> > V4L in-tree version > >> > [ 14.918320] pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f) > >> > > > > Those messages appear when the module gets loaded. And only at that > > time. > > > > But that's different than the act of associating the module with the > > device. That association step is outside the control of the driver. > > The USB core (likely in cooperation with udev) uses a database of known > > USB IDs mapped to module names. Each such module (e.g. pvrusb2) > > logically gets its "own" USB IDs registered when that module is > > depmod'ed from userspace. If that database is messed up, then the USB > > core can't know to associate the pvrusb2 driver. I've seen this happen > > if "depmod -a" hasn't been run after the kernel's module tree is updated > > / changed. However if you are just running a vanilla kernel with > > pvrusb2 built as part of it, then all that setup should have been taken > > care of when you installed the kernel in your system. > > > > I haven't tried the new 2.6.27 here yet. This weekend I'll grab the > > new source tree and take a look. > > > > > ....snip.... > > I think it's a USB Core problem, because if I attach my pvrusb2 I get > the same as devsk, the firmware is not loaded and it's not working! If I > then disconnect it, I can't use any USB devices anymore, because the USB > connect or disconnect doesn't work anymore, the USB core seems to be > locked. I have seen the problem in Ubuntu 8.10 beta and Mandriva2009, > both using the 2.6.27 kernel. Made a bug report to Ubuntu kernel team a > long time ago, but no luck yet, so maybe we will not be able to use our > pvrusb2 devices in the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 ;-( Well now that the misbehavior has been seen in the vanilla kernel maybe I can chase it down. I'll post if I figure anything out. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
