Bug 1553

Summary: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 will not work
Product: Mageia Reporter: Gary Montalbine <gmontalbine>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw CVE:
Status comment:

Description Gary Montalbine 2011-06-03 15:14:48 CEST
Description of problem:ivtv0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?

I have no idea where the hotplug firmware directoy is located. IVTV site is no help. This worked in ML 2010.2

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.2
ivtv0: Initializing card 0
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ivtv 0000:03:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
tveeprom 5-0050: Hauppauge model 32062, rev C182, serial# 7913257
tveeprom 5-0050: tuner model is LG TAPC H791F (idx 82, type 39)
tveeprom 5-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 5-0050: audio processor is MSP3445 (idx 12)
tveeprom 5-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
tveeprom 5-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
saa7115 5-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
msp3400 5-0040: MSP3445G-B8 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
msp3400 5-0040: msp3400 supports radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect
tuner 5-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tuner-simple 5-0061: creating new instance
tuner-simple 5-0061: type set to 39 (LG NTSC (newer TAPC series))
ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv0: Initialized card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
ivtv: End initialization
ivtv0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?

This is my first bug report I have ever submitted. Hope it is OK.

The situation is critical because it operates my security camera.

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Comment 1 Gary Montalbine 2011-06-03 17:15:42 CEST
My question was answered in the mageia discussion group. I had to add the firmware file for the card to /lib/firmware. Good group.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED