Hello, I wonder if you can point me in the right direction. I just recieved a brand new hauppage hvr-1950 (75111LF REV D1F5) a few days back and I'm about ready to return the dang thing. I'm unsure whether I have a version which requires 16kb firmware or not.
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with generic kernel 2.6-31-19. Most of the time my Hauppage is not recognized and dmesg returns the following: [ 14.356312] usb 1-6: firmware: requesting v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw [ 14.423103] pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing. [ 14.423156] pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper location? [ 14.423162] pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw [ 14.423167] pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1 [ 14.423171] pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful. [ 14.423174] pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be missing. Last night it somehow got recognized by the kernel (and stayed that way through multiple reboots until I unplugged and replugged it this morning), but w_scan yielded no frequencies. I checked and indeed, the firmware file in firmware/dvr/ was 8kb. Is it possible the system somehow randomly "grabbed" the wrong firmware, or partial firmware, but this was enough to allow me to w_scan without results? That's the only explanation I'm coming up with. So if I need the 16kb driver, which it appears I will, I'm afraid I'm going to need help installing it. There's not a lot out there on the forum for newbies since this is a fairly recent issue, and I've only been using Linux for a couple of months. Is there any chance you could point me in the right direction of how to compile standalone driver, and how to install the firmware provided on this site, in a GUI like Ubuntu? (For example, I've read the setup instructions several times but I'm really sure what it means to compile the driver reasonably close to a suitable source tree.) Another gentleman is having the same issue. You can see our thread over at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398842 Sorry for being distribution specific, I'm really very new to Linux. Thanks, Jesse _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
