Hi to those that responded, it was a problem with the linuxtv-dvb-cvs drivers. Reverting to the drivers in the gentoo-sources kernel fixes the problem. haven't tried the cvs patch yet. Thanks for everyone's help. Regards Anthony. On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:28 +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2005, Anssi Hannula wrote: > > > anthony hornby wrote: > >> I can't load the firmware on my Hauppauge Nova-T cards under Gentoo > >> 2005, using Gentoo-De ebuilds. > >> > >> This is weird as I have used these cards successfully under Fedora core > >> 3 with no problems. > > > >> tda1004x: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-tda10045.fw)... > >> tda1004x: firmware upload complete > >> tda1004x: found firmware revision 2c -- invalid > > > > It looks like the firmware format has changed or something like that. Try > > using the dvb-fe-tda10045.fw from dvb-kernel CVS. > > Recently there was a change in the tda1004x-frontend-driver, which seems > to prevent the firmware-loading for the tda10045. Hartmut Hackman provided > a patch, which is not in CVS yet, because it's untested > > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-May/002135.html and > the following. > > I don't know if Gentoo uses daily CVS. If they do, the patch should fix > it. > > If it solves the problem, please CC the linux-dvb mailing list, too. > > HTH, > Patrick. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
