[linux-dvb] Re: TDA1004x and 2.6.10 kernel fw loading problem

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:39:02AM +0000, Richard Hamnett wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:08:52 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Tomá? Chaloupka wrote:
> > > Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > >Do you have hotplug installed? (It's probably /sbin/hotplug.)
> > > >It is needed to pass the file from /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware to the
> > > >kernel when the driver requests it.
> > > >
> > > >The new firmware files are dvb-fe-tda10045.fw (and ...6.fw). They are
> > > >30K for the 10045 and 24K for the 10046. The old tda1004x.bin (much
> > > >bigger) is no longer required but it's ok to leave it in the directory.
> > > >
> > > Yes I have it installed. Before new kernel it worked just fine.
> > > When I boot the old kernel it also works fine.
> > 
> > The old kernel does not need hotplug to load the DVB firmware.
> > The driver would read the file directly from /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
> > In 2.6.10, the driver uses hotplug to get the firmware instead.
> > 
> Hi there, I have just had this problem recently, and it was because i
> was using udev 0.50 which seems to have a new firmware loading agent.
> 
> I have reverted back to udev 0.45 for the time being, and i presume
> this will resolve your issue too
> 
> Thing is, we need someone with more knowledge than myself to try and
> figure out why udev 0.50's new firmware loader isn't working properly

I'm not using udev at all. Just hotplug, whose version number (of the
Debian package) is 0.0.20040329-16. So I guess it's not that new.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>