Hi Tom, I understand for FC4 you need to copy the firmware files to:
/lib/firmware/ Perhaps you could try copying the v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw files to this directory or create links to the files in this directory. Best Regards Trev On Tuesday 11 Apr 2006 01:19, Thomas Strike wrote: > Thomas Strike wrote: > >Trev Jackson wrote: > >>Hi again, > >> > >>I should also have said that you need to rename the firmware files > >> > >>ivtv-fw-enc.bin to v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw > >>ivtv-fw-dec.bin to v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw > >> > >>The directory for the firmware files on my system is: > >> > >>/lib/hotplug/firmware > >> > >>but I am running Mandrake 10.1 so the hotplug directory you need for FC4 > >> is almost certainly different. The instructions on the page: > >> > >>http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware > >> > >>may be helpful > >> > >>Best Regards > >> > >>Trev > > > >Yes! Thank You. > >I kinda suspected that that the v4l firmware files were these same > >encoder/decoder images but I couldn't find any documentation to confirm > >this. Thanks. > > > >As for the hotplug directory, my system doesn't have any hotplug > >subdirectories under "/lib" or "/usr/lib". There is, however, an > >"/etc/hotplug" and a "/etc/hotplug.d" on my system. I'll try the Fw > >files there and then the more traditional "/lib/modules". > > > >Thanks again, > >Tom S. > > Well, I tried putting links to the image files in /etc/hotplug, > /etc/hotplug.d, /lib/modules, and named them "v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw" & > "v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw" respectively. I even made a foldr link to > /etc/hotplug as /lib/hotplug. I still get these messages in dmesg: > ========================================================== > 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 0000:00:09.0 failed with error -12 > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > It's beginning to look like this isn't the files that ivtv is looking > for as "v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw". > v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw must be a real v4l file. > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
