[ivtv-users] cx18 module not loading

[faginbagin]

J McBride wrote:
> Thanks, I tried the older changeset, and seemed to get a little
> further.  Here is the result:
> 
> dmesg |grep cx18
> cx18:  Start initialization, version 1.3.0
> cx18-0: Initializing card 0
> cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
> cx18 0000:03:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
> cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
> cx18-0: Simultaneous Digital and Analog TV capture supported
> IRQ 20/cx18-0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
> tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
> cs5345 0-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
> cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (64 x 32.00 kB)
> DVB: registering new adapter (cx18)
> cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered
> cx18-0: Registered DVB adapter0 for TS (32 x 32.00 kB)
> cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (20 x 101.25 kB)
> cx18-0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (20 x 51984 bytes)
> cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (256 x 4.00 kB)
> cx18-0: Initialized card: Hauppauge HVR-1600
> cx18:  End initialization
> cx18 0000:03:05.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
> cx18-0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
> cx18-0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
> cx18-0: Retry loading firmware
> cx18 0000:03:05.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
> cx18-0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
> cx18-0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?

Looks like you're missing the firmware. I think what you need is to download the following:
http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/cx18-firmware.tar.gz
Untar and put the .fw files in /lib/firmware. FMI, see:
http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18#Firmware

FWIW, I use the mythbuntu variant of ubuntu and these files were automatically installed for me. On mythbuntu/ubuntu, they come from the linux-firmware package.

HTH,
Helen