On 10/23/11 16:52, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan: >> Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. >> I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed >> the steps found at >> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, >> but I'm still getting errors. When I plug the TV card into the USB slot >> in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says: >> > [...] >> >> >> I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no >> change. How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card? >> -Michael Sullivan- >> > > Try media-tv/ivtv-firmware. For some reason, that works better for me. > And also media-tv/ivtv-utils. > > BTW: If your HVR behaves the same as my old PVR2, it can sometimes help > to suspend and wake the system to get it working. >
OK. I restarted the computer. (I have never suspended that computer before and was unsure of what would happen, but I did not realize at the time that my the game running on my wife's computer was using a samba share that would be disrupted.) I had no luck with ivtv-firmware, so I have reinstalled linuxtv-dvb-firmware-2009.09.19. Now the output of dmesg has changed somewhat: michael@carter ~ $ dmesg | grep -i pvr pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2 pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f) pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing. pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper location? pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1 pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful. pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be missing. Does this help?
