I don't know what I did but /usr/lib/hotplug dissappeared. Any thoughts on how to correct this.

partial output from dmesg:

sis96x_smbus 0000:00:02.1: SiS96x SMBus base address: 0x10c0
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
v4l2_common: version magic '2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0' should be '2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0'
v4l1_compat: version magic '2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0' should be '2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0'
video_buf: version magic '2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0' should be '2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0'
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_streamoff
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_poll_stream
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_dma_pci_unmap
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_dma_free
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_reqbufs
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol v4l_compat_translate_ioctl
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_waiton
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_dqbuf
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol v4l2_video_std_construct
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_queue_init
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol v4l2_field_names
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_read_stream
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_querybuf
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_qbuf
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_read_one
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_iolock
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_streamon
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_queue_cancel
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_mmap_setup
saa7146_vv: Unknown symbol videobuf_mmap_mapper
dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol saa7146_vv_init
dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol saa7146_vv_release
dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol saa7146_start_preview
dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol saa7146_unregister_device
dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol saa7146_register_device
dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol saa7146_set_hps_source_and_sync
dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol saa7146_stop_preview
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 9
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered


OS is fedora 4 (2.6.12-1.1456_FC4)
dvb card is hauppauge nexus-s (was working earlier today)

I had problems with Mplayer crashing so I uninstalled it and installed a newer version. It's working now but this happened.

thanks

did you uninstall hotplug? reinstalling might help

Yes it's still installed. It never dawned on me that it was a package. I was going to uninstall and reinstall it, but most of my system would be un installed with it including alsa and kde. I tried messing around with alsa a couple of times and ended up with a wrecked system.

Can I force a reinstall of hotplug?

I just checked another computer with FC3 and it had hotplug installed and there was no directory either. I guess it's supposed to be that way. It was late when I posted and I thought my firmware was installed there. It's in /lib/firmware (I had it confused with mandrake 10.1). Any other thoughts? --thanks