From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RI7f1-0002jh-38 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:40:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4B6F21C07C; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128F621C01F for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yws29 with SMTP id 29so2153734yws.40 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:39:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=etRZsQVAR3w6pyO8tpFqzDZpKFfauPHU/vgwa2Upox8=; b=gnSIT8+prCPlfXGXWVHJK/9HzSZJrC5MEEB73REnF7uSe9b7PNK6cnM4fBcJ29QPhu VL0uxMGbjjwxzUjm8a3gf6Qplq9WCRuHbyp6WY9tBf5d5yJCyffbsnICBjZWcFA5/fd1 xfWAIDlXEYkRfjjDE13WjLInD3BGUnpwCkV10= Received: by 10.236.135.66 with SMTP id t42mr26247006yhi.31.1319413190627; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.3] (adsl-70-234-105-117.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net. [70.234.105.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm30866332anz.2.2011.10.23.16.39.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EA4A62F.5020100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:41:35 -0500 From: Michael Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110916 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2 References: <4EA488E9.9070104@gmail.com> <20111023234853.398af913@digimed.co.uk> <4EA49CA4.4010603@gmail.com> <20111024001537.2481eab7@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111024001537.2481eab7@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 63a82ad4e625ed75f328ecdd487de178 On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > >>>> pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file >>>> v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw >>> >>> Is this file present in /lib/firmware? > >> Nope: > > It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything > else. > >> How do I get that file? > > Putting the filename into Google gave me those instructions in the first > link. > > OK I've got the file: michael@carter /lib/firmware $ ls v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw It's still giving me the same errors though: michael@carter /lib/firmware $ dmesg | grep pvrusb pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2 pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f) pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing. pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper location? pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1 pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful. pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be missing.