Re: saa7146 firmware upload time?

2010-05-02 Thread John J Lee
On Sun, 2 May 2010, John J Lee wrote: On Sun, 2 May 2010, Oliver Endriss wrote: [...] Obviously, the firmware is not loaded at modprobe time. It is loaded when an application opens the frontend for the first time. [...] Thanks. Before the frontend can be opened, open(2) must be called on a

Re: saa7146 firmware upload time?

2010-05-02 Thread John J Lee
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Oliver Endriss wrote: [...] Obviously, the firmware is not loaded at modprobe time. It is loaded when an application opens the frontend for the first time. [...] Thanks. Before the frontend can be opened, open(2) must be called on a v4l device file, right? I don't appear

saa7146 firmware upload time?

2010-05-02 Thread John J Lee
Hi 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.