After trying to upgrade to 2.6.11 and /sbin/modprobe dvb-ttpci hw_sections=0 i get: linux video capture interface: v1.00 saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e0a5ce00 (revision 1, irq 177) (0x13c2,0x0003). dvb-ttpci: could not load firmware, file not found: dvb-ttpci-01.fw dvb-ttpci: usually this should be in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware dvb-ttpci: and can be downloaded here http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/ ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e0a5cc00 (revision 1, irq 169) (0x13c2,0x0003). dvb-ttpci: could not load firmware, file not found: dvb-ttpci-01.fw dvb-ttpci: usually this should be in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware dvb-ttpci: and can be downloaded here http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/ ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e0a5ca00 (revision 1, irq 177) (0x13c2,0x0000). dvb-ttpci: could not load firmware, file not found: dvb-ttpci-01.fw dvb-ttpci: usually this should be in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware dvb-ttpci: and can be downloaded here http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/ But the firmware is there: # ll /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware total 464 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231952 Dec 26 01:02 dvb-ttpci-01.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231952 Dec 26 01:02 dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261d What is the real meaning of "could not load firmware, file not found:"? Google found that message a lot(too often), but no useful answer. Rainer