Hi, On Sunday 02 May 2010 20:13:08 John J Lee wrote: > My "WinTV NOVA-t" PCI card is recognized by the saa7146 driver (ubuntu > 9.10 2.6.31-21-generic kernel), but I don't have a /dev/video0. At some > point I noticed messages in syslog about missing firmware (below), and > rectified that by fetching the firmware and dropping it in /lib/firmware. > > However, there's a big gap (over an hour and a half) between boot and the > time when the driver complains about the firmware: > > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.447825] saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'. > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.449357] budget_ci dvb 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.449394] IRQ 17/: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.449412] saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem ffffc90011348c00 (revision 1, irq 17) (0x13c2,0x1011). > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.449416] saa7146 (0): dma buffer size 192512 > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.449417] DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI) > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.510969] adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:23:ed:cf > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.511252] input: Budget-CI dvb ir receiver saa7146 (0) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:05:01.0/input/input7 > May 2 16:00:28 alice kernel: [ 58.587617] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Philips TDA10045H DVB-T)... > [...] > May 2 17:40:39 alice kernel: [ 6057.360792] tda1004x: found firmware revision 0 -- invalid > May 2 17:40:39 alice kernel: [ 6057.360795] tda1004x: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-tda10045.fw)... > May 2 17:40:39 alice kernel: [ 6057.360800] budget_ci dvb 0000:05:01.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-tda10045.fw > May 2 17:40:39 alice kernel: [ 6057.449458] tda1004x: no firmware upload (timeout or file not found?) > May 2 17:40:39 alice kernel: [ 6057.449461] tda1004x: firmware upload failed > May 2 17:40:39 alice firmware.sh[4365]: Cannot find firmware file 'dvb-fe-tda10045.fw' > > > I don't know anything about the kernel but looking at the source seemed to > suggest the driver looks for the firmware at modprobe time, but rmmod > followed by modprobe doesn't give me any messages about firmware (nor does > a reboot). What should I do to trigger this firmware upload process > again? Obviously, the firmware is not loaded at modprobe time. It is loaded when an application opens the frontend for the first time. CU Oliver -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin 0.4.0: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ 4 MByte Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-mem-mod/ Full-TS Mod: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb-full-ts-mod/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html