[mythtv-users] cannot open /dev/video0

[Tom Lichti]

Abigail Smith wrote:
>  
> Ok now we're getting somewhere.  depmod and modprobe both returned with 
> 0 (echo $?) and no errors.
>  
> The ivtv module is loaded (lsmod) and modprobe.conf has plenty of stuff 
> in there but I am not certain if it's "correct".
>  
> /var/log/messages is the key tho. 
>  
> grep ivtv /var/log/messages >> "unable to open firmware 
> v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw....."    "failed loading encoder firmware".
>  
> Ok so that's the problem.  Any hints on the solution?

What do you get with :

ls /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

Tom