Opps sorry for the no subject: Hey Guys I have tried a whole bunch of times now with several distributions and a whole bunch of kernels (all 2.6x though) right up to 2.6.8.1 and no matter what I do I cannot get the kernel to upload the firmware for my WinTV nova-t card. If I try I just persistantly get an error message during boot that it failed to upload the firmware. Here is the full (TV related) output from dmesge: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z SAA5246A (or compatible) Teletext decoder driver version 1.7 SAA5249 driver (SAA5249 interface) for VideoText version 1.7 saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'. saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb /w video in'. saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'. ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 17 saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e087d000 (revision 1, irq 17) (0x13c2,0x1011). DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI). bt878 find by dvb adap: checking "TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI" bt878 find by dvb adap: NOT found "TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI" tda1004x: Detected Philips TDA10045H. tda1004x: Detected Philips TD1316 tuner. tda1004x_fwupload: Unable to open firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/tda1004x.bin TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:22:0b:bf saa7146: register extension 'budget_patch dvb'. saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. usbcore: registered new driver ttusb-dec usbcore: registered new driver Technotrend/Hauppauge USB-Nova bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded I am certain that the firmware is located in the specified directory, that it does indeed have the correct name and that it is the correct version - since I asked the manufacturer to send it to me. Everything else in my kernel is as it should be. Moreover I have tried every firmware version available over the last 18 months - which I believe is when I first bought this card - including the original firmware that came on the CD. Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? On what does successful firmware uploading depend on in the kernel? I noticed an option for hotplug firmware uploading, but it is currently unelectable (there is no check box next to it) - and I am not at all certain if this is significant. In the one kernel version I did try that had it enabled (in SuSe) it didn't seem to make any difference anyway, as the firmware still refused to upload. I have fixed the permissions for the firmware and it's directory to read write and execute for all, similarly so with my /dev/dvb directory. Is there anything at all anyone can think of that I might have missed? Best regards, GJ
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Hey Guys I have tried a whole bunch of times now with several distributions and a whole bunch of kernels (all 2.6x though) right up to 2.6.8.1 and no matter what I do I cannot get the kernel to upload the firmware for my WinTV nova-t card. If I try I just persistantly get an error message during boot that it failed to upload the firmware. Here is the full (TV related) output from dmesge: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z SAA5246A (or compatible) Teletext decoder driver version 1.7 SAA5249 driver (SAA5249 interface) for VideoText version 1.7 saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'. saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb /w video in'. saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'. ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 17 saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e087d000 (revision 1, irq 17) (0x13c2,0x1011). DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI). bt878 find by dvb adap: checking "TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI" bt878 find by dvb adap: NOT found "TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI" tda1004x: Detected Philips TDA10045H. tda1004x: Detected Philips TD1316 tuner. tda1004x_fwupload: Unable to open firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/tda1004x.bin TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:22:0b:bf saa7146: register extension 'budget_patch dvb'. saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. usbcore: registered new driver ttusb-dec usbcore: registered new driver Technotrend/Hauppauge USB-Nova bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded I am certain that the firmware is located in the specified directory, that it does indeed have the correct name and that it is the correct version - since I asked the manufacturer to send it to me. Everything else in my kernel is as it should be. Moreover I have tried every firmware version available over the last 18 months - which I believe is when I first bought this card - including the original firmware that came on the CD. Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? On what does successful firmware uploading depend on in the kernel? I noticed an option for hotplug firmware uploading, but it is currently unelectable (there is no check box next to it) - and I am not at all certain if this is significant. In the one kernel version I did try that had it enabled (in SuSe) it didn't seem to make any difference anyway, as the firmware still refused to upload. I have fixed the permissions for the firmware and it's directory to read write and execute for all, similarly so with my /dev/dvb directory. Is there anything at all anyone can think of that I might have missed? Best regards, GJ--- End Message ---