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 1RI97R-0003nc-6u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:14:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25E7721C1D3; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203AD21C01F for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so6960942gye.40 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:13:16 -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=eKzKiwPdAbbbJN+MdjDSRHW/gxoC2JjuLI9qBVEuAXc=; b=vbtVmipkfOlSfqZDXjnS9PxuDNmMOHrLJzgN1r7IPuIug5gMlsfqf6txPgl5aLXsTa dBKcrc6trCmrRVoJvnX67GmziEy4DScvpuUom6nTGQTdwzZFL/srY7ZKkQ9DdtDuXDAN tLPNKrZRoEmTYR41+kUZeUftQJ+IdlWZQrR7c= Received: by 10.236.131.72 with SMTP id l48mr7020054yhi.90.1319418796590; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:13:16 -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 l27sm24336588ani.21.2011.10.23.18.13.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EA4BC16.8030506@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:15:02 -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 [SOLVED] 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: d26858f3c0ef9a684f53288ac6829df9 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. > > I downloaded that file and rebooted and dmesg griped about another file and I found it and downloaded it and rebooted and now my output looks like this, which I'm happy with: michael@carter ~ $ dmesg | grep -i pvrusb2 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: Binding ir_rx_z8f0811_haup to i2c address 0x71. pvrusb2: Binding ir_tx_z8f0811_haup to i2c address 0x70. cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (pvrusb2_a) pvrusb2: Attached sub-driver cx25840 pvrusb2: Attached sub-driver tuner pvrusb2: Supported video standard(s) reported available in hardware: PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB pvrusb2: Mapping standards mask=0x300b700 (PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB) pvrusb2: Setting up 6 unique standard(s) pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=0 name=PAL-M pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=1 name=PAL-N pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=2 name=PAL-Nc pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=3 name=NTSC-M pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=4 name=NTSC-Mj pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=5 name=NTSC-Mk pvrusb2: Initial video standard (determined by device type): NTSC-M pvrusb2: Device initialization completed successfully. pvrusb2: registered device video0 [mpeg] DVB: registering new adapter (pvrusb2-dvb) Speaking of which, isn't there an easier way to reload modules than rebooting? When I started using Gentoo in 2004, there was an /etc/init.d/hotplug, which was replaced by /etc/init.d/coldplug, but neither one seems to be present anymore on the system. What service loads modules on bootup now?