[mythtv-users] plextor initial setup

[Phil]

Hi,

My plextor arrived and while I intend to set it up on the laptop (in the
shop), I thought I'd give it a go on the desktop / server first.  I'm on
gentoo and have recently upgraded to modular xorg.  I've never been
particular successful at getting this machine's nvidia drivers to work
(A7N8X-E Deluxe MB w/ nforce2 SPP Ultra 400), so I've stuck with the
xorg-x11 drivers (as I said, it's a server, so I've not been too bothered).

Anyhow, I have used the plextor guide
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_go7007) and mythtv setup guide
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV) as my cues in this process.
  Everything seems to go OK [modprobe on plextor module(s) goes fine,
zap2it OK, mysql OK, etc.] until I realize that I have no /dev/video* or
/dev/v4l.  I attempted to set this up and failed to reap any benefit:
  mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
  ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
as
  mythtv couldn't open /dev/video0 to probe its inputs
As I write this I noticed:

$ tail -f /var/log/messages

Jul 18 11:33:36 twiggy usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 10
Jul 18 11:33:38 twiggy usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 11
Jul 18 11:33:38 twiggy usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jul 18 11:33:39 twiggy usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 11
Jul 18 11:33:40 twiggy usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 12
Jul 18 11:33:41 twiggy usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jul 18 11:33:41 twiggy go7007-usb: probing new GO7007 USB board
Jul 18 11:33:51 twiggy go7007: unable to load firmware from file
"go7007fw.bin"

$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
go7007_usb             14276  0
go7007                 52800  1 go7007_usb
firmware_class          8896  1 go7007
v4l2_common             7168  1 go7007
videodev                7744  1 go7007
snd_go7007              5924  1 go7007
nvidia_agp              6748  1
radeonfb              104832  0
i2c_algo_bit            9416  1 radeonfb
cfbcopyarea             4096  1 radeonfb
cfbimgblt               3264  1 radeonfb
cfbfillrect             4096  1 radeonfb
i2c_core               18624  4 go7007_usb,go7007,radeonfb,i2c_algo_bit
forcedeth              22468  0


My problems may be greater than this simple issue, but I'm hoping not.
:-D  Any recommendations at this point?