[mythtv-users] How to force ivtv.o to initialize the correct card?

[Johnny Lee]

> How can I load ivtv.o and force it to initialize my Hauppauge WinTV
> PVR-350
> card?
>
> I have an existing PixelView PlayTV Pro (BTTV based, PCI tuner) card,
> which
> I use with the program "motion". Last night I got the chance to open up
> the
> computer and pulled out the BTTV based card. After starting up, the ivtv.o
> module successfully found and loaded the Hauppauge PVR-350.
>
> (some hopefully useful 'lspci' output)
> 	Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
> 	01:0c.0 Class 0400: 4444:0803 (rev 01)
> 		Subsystem: 0070:4000
> 		Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 6
> 		Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> 		Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
> 	Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture
> 	01:0a.0 Class 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
> 		Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
> 		Memory at f46fe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
> 		Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> 		Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> 	Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> 	01:0a.1 Class 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
> 		Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
> 		Memory at f46ff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
> 		Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> 		Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> If I have the bttv modules loaded I get the following errors when
> attempting to load ivtv.o,
>
> /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv.o: init_module: No
> such
> device
> /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv.o: Hint: insmod errors
> can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
> parameters.
>        You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv.o: insmod ivtv failed
>
> /var/log/syslog reports:
> Oct  5 10:50:32 www kernel: ivtv: version 0.1.9 (release) loading
> Oct  5 10:50:32 www kernel: ivtv: SGarray_size = 340, DSGarray_size = 16
> Oct  5 10:50:32 www kernel: ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
> Oct  5 10:50:33 www kernel: ivtv: failed loading encoder firmware
> Oct  5 10:50:33 www kernel: ivtv: Error loading firmware!
> Oct  5 10:50:33 www kernel: ivtv: Error initializing.
> Oct  5 10:50:33 www kernel: ivtv: Error -12 on init
> Oct  5 10:50:33 www kernel: ivtv: Error detecting PCI card
>
> or if I unload all bttv drivers before trying to load the ivtv related
> modules, when I attempt to load ivtv.o the system locks up and I have to
> reboot.
>
> I'm running Slackware 10 on an Intel Pentium III  1 GHz, 512 MB.
> My kernel is 2.4.26 with V4L2 patch (20_v4l2-2.4.26.diff.gz) applied.
>
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looks like it's dieing when it wants to load the firmware... do you have it?
Johnny