A little about my system. I have one PVR-250 and one PVR-500 in my system I'm also running an up to date Gentoo system with a 2.6.15 kernel. I know the cards work, because they worked with earlier versions of the ivtv driver. But because of other issues with the computer I went back to a Windows system until different drivers (ndiswrapper) became more refined and didn't keep locking up my system.
Anyways, I remember that ivtv drivers use to look for firmware in the /lib/modules directory, but that has since moved to a hotplug system. Not sure if that is good or bad, but it is causing me to pull my hair out, and I don't have much left as it is. It seems that Gentoo uses udev as default to load drivers upon booting. If udev doesn't have the proper rules its suppose to "switch/call" hotplug to finish the process. However, this doesn't seem to be working properly though. When ever I load ivtv into the kernel I get this:
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ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.4.3 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 preempt K7 gcc-3.4
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
tveeprom: ivtv version
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32062, rev = C199, serial# = 8115600
tveeprom: tuner = TCL 2002N 5H (idx = 99, type = 50)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
tveeprom: audio processor = MSP3445 (type = c)
tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
saa7115 0-0021: ivtv driver
saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
msp3400 0-0040: ivtv driver
msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP3445G-B8 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler
msp3400 0-0040: msp34xxg daemon started
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP3445G-B8, addr=40]
ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
ivtv0 warning: failed loading encoder firmware
ivtv0 warning: Error loading firmware -3!
ivtv0: Error -3 initializing firmware.
ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization
ivtv: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error -12
(end snip, happens for both all cards)--------------------------------------------------------------
Supposedly hotplug is looking for firmware in /lib/firmware according to /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent, but for some reason it doesn't see it. If I do this "cat "/sbin/hotplug" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug" then ivtv loads perfectly. Upon rebooting /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug reverts back to "/sbin/udevsend". I've tried the workaround in this post http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=914, but it seems that udev-079 (which I'm using) already has this fix incorporated into it. I'm at a loss at what to do, and my wife is getting more anxious then ever to her PVR back. Is there anyone out ther also running Gentoo or running into a similar problem as this and has a fix for it?
Another question, what caused the developers to switch to hotplug, rather then keeping the firmware located in /lib/modules? Is there a make switch that we can use to when compiling the ivtv driver so that it looks in /lib/modules again rather then using hotplug?
Thanks for the help,
Reid
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