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Bug 255421 - firmware for cx23885 - PVR 500, possibly others
Summary: firmware for cx23885 - PVR 500, possibly others
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement
Assignee: Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage
URL: http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/
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Reported: 2009-01-18 18:58 UTC by Petre Rodan
Modified: 2010-02-08 19:23 UTC (History)
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Description Petre Rodan 2009-01-18 18:58:21 UTC 
I have a HVR 500 card that after upgrading the kernel from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28 (and from media-tv/ivtv to media-tv/ivtv-utils) did not play any sound at all. image was good tho.

syslog reported this:
Jan 18 20:13:01 pandora cx25840 1-0044: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
Jan 18 20:13:01 pandora cx25840 1-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw

there is such a firmware here: http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/ and it works just great.

it would be nice to have v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw and v4l-cx23885-enc.fw part of media-tv/ivtv-firmware.
Comment 1 Petre Rodan 2009-01-18 19:18:01 UTC 
card is PVR 500 not HVR 500, sorry
Comment 2 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev 2010-02-02 19:18:39 UTC 
This firmware is part of media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware

Set DVB_CARDS="cx23885" in your /etc/make.conf and emerge linuxtv-dvb-firmware.
Comment 3 Petre Rodan 2010-02-02 21:12:37 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> This firmware is part of media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware
> 
> Set DVB_CARDS="cx23885" in your /etc/make.conf and emerge linuxtv-dvb-firmware.
> 

thanks, I did not know about this package.

I removed all /lib/firmware, emerged as per your reply, then I got this:

ivtv1: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
ivtv1: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
ivtv1: Retry loading firmware

copied that missing file, then got this other one:

cx25840 2-0044: firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw
cx25840 2-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx25840.fw

all of the above (plus v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw and v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg which I don't know if will ever be needed) were available in that file from comment #0
Comment 4 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev 2010-02-08 19:23:21 UTC 
media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware will be removed from the tree in 30 days. See bug #304047 for more information.