[linux-dvb] Re: How do I know if the firmware is loaded correctly ?

[Christophe Thommeret <hftom@free.fr>]

Le Mercredi 12 Janvier 2005 13:45, Hauke Reese a écrit :
> Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2005 13:55 schrieb Hauke Reese:
> > Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2005 11:55 schrieb Matthias Fechner:
> > > Hello Hauke,
> > >
> > > * Hauke Reese <reese@fh-westkueste.de> [11-01-05 11:19]:
> > > > I don't run a script, suse 9.2 does it for you.
> > > > But when you I type lsmod I see all the nice modules like
> > > > budget, saa7146,dvb_core,stv00299 and so on.
> > > > the only thing is, that I don't get a picture if I haven't started
> > > > windows before.
> > > > When I type dmesg I got the answer "is n".
> > >
> > > have you done, what is described in README from the dvb-kernel driver?
> > > You are using kernel 2.6?
> >
> > You mean the /usr/share/doc/packages/dvb/README.SuSE ?
> > yeah I do so and all modules are loaded, even if I delete the files in
> > the firmware directory !
> >
> > But perhaps do anyone know wich files must be in the
> > /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware directory ?
>
> Ok
> I found the mistake on my own,
> it is simply that the firmware file named "SC_MAIN.MC" that you get from
> another program (I got mine from progdvb under windows) must be copied to
>   /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
> Now it works with kaxtv, but it's very lausy because kaxtv crashes very
> often.

http://hftom.free.fr/kaxtv/kaffeine-dvb.tar.bz2 should fix.
Have a look at README.dvb

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Christophe Thommeret