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IanV
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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: In what directory should firmware be installed? |
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I am installing a DVB card which requires firmware to be loaded. Where should I save that firmware so it will be found by the driver?
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ichbins
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: |
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depending on your hotplug version.
/lib/firmware or /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
To find out where you could store the files , just type:
| Code: | | equery files hotplug |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:25 am Post subject: |
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Not installation related, moving.
Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
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depontius
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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I just went through this pain, and ended up finding the right location by search, trial, and error: "/lib/firmware"
Now that I try the equery, it appears that the other location should be correct:
| Code: | user@localhost ~ $ equery files hotplug
[ Searching for packages matching hotplug... ]
* Contents of sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r2:
/etc
/etc/conf.d
/etc/conf.d/usb
/etc/hotplug
/etc/hotplug.d
/etc/hotplug.d/default
/etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug
/etc/hotplug/blacklist
/etc/hotplug/dasd.agent
/etc/hotplug/dasd.permissions
/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
/etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions
/etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent
/etc/hotplug/input.agent
/etc/hotplug/input.rc
/etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc
/etc/hotplug/net.agent
/etc/hotplug/pci
/etc/hotplug/pci.agent
/etc/hotplug/pci.rc
/etc/hotplug/pnp.distmap
/etc/hotplug/pnp.rc
/etc/hotplug/scsi.agent
/etc/hotplug/tape.agent
/etc/hotplug/tape.permissions
/etc/hotplug/usb
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent
/etc/hotplug/usb.distmap
/etc/hotplug/usb.handmap
/etc/hotplug/usb.rc
/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/hotplug
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/hotplug
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/hotplug-20040923-r2
/usr/share/doc/hotplug-20040923-r2/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/doc/hotplug-20040923-r2/README.bz2
/usr/share/doc/hotplug-20040923-r2/README.modules.bz2
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/hotplug.8.bz2
/var
/var/run
/var/run/usb
user@localhost ~ $
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I'm now guessing that the correct answer is, "either."
Now that I look a little harder, things get even odder. When I first ran "equery files hotplug" there were many blank lines interspersed, including all of the lines in "/usr/lib". So I didn't see the "firmware" line until I cut and pasted it into this post. Next I decided to ssh into my home system where I'm running my DVB card, (Hauppauge HVR-1600) and discover that I don't even have hotplug installed! I don't know how the heck that happened, since hotplug is as old as the hills. I remember a while back being told to unmerge coldplug, but have no idea why hotplug wouldn't be in my home system, if only as part of "system".
This needs further investigation.
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IanV
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for the replies. Sorry about the wrong forum Bunder. Thanks for correcting it.
I don't seem to have equery on my system so will have to find it on the net. However, I may have an answer to your situation, Depontius. I emerged hotplug and got the following messages:
* WARNING: The hotplug init script is now gone (dead and buried).
* WARNING: If you want to load modules for hardware that was already
* WARNING: discovered at boot time, like the old hotplug init script
* WARNING: did, then emerge the coldplug package and add coldplug to
* WARNING: a runlevel, e.g. # rc-update add coldplug boot
* WARNING: All firmware loaded by the hotplug scripts needs to be
* WARNING: move to the /lib/firmware directory, as the scripts now
* WARNING: expect it to be in that location.
* If you still have the file /etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc on your system
* please delete it by hand, the file /etc/hotplug/pnp.rc supercedes it.
I have now created the /lib/firmware directory and will try with the firmware in that.
Thanks for your help.
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depontius
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That's odd, because I seem to remember coldplug going away, and remember unmerging it. I don't remember hotplug going away. My work deskside still has it, but I should check if it's being run. I should also check the work laptop, and my other computers here at home, for that matter.
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IanV
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:24 am Post subject: How do I find the name of a Module? |
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Still on the original topic, I have used Make Menuconfig and selected Device Drivers>Multimedia Devices>Video capture adapters where I understand I need the Conexant 2388x (bt878 successot) support. This has M against it indicating that it is modularized. I would like to load this module manually to test the card. How do I find the name of the module which has been created to use with modprobe?
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tuam
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: |
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In menuconfig, select the setting and then "help":
| Code: | CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88:
This is a video4linux driver for Conexant 2388x based
TV cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called cx8800 |
FF,
Daniel
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