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For a PVR-150 you do NOT need v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw or v4l-cx2341x-init-mpeg.bin
The hotplug firmware directory may be different on different distributions. The firmware link above tells you how to find out where it is on your distro.
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NOTE: IVTV hotplug did NOT work for me reliably on Debian SID running kernel 2.6.14-1-686. Check your /var/log/messages and/or /var/log/syslog to see if the same problem affects you. I had to comment out hotplug lines in the IVTV source code, recompile, and reinstall. Thus forcing IVTV to use the older non-hotplug method of loading firmware. YMMV. Here's what I had to do to disable hotplug, just in case you need to do the same.
...then recompile and manually copy v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw and v4l-cx25840.fw to /lib/modules/. Symlinks to these files did NOT work from /lib/modules/. I had to actually copy the files.
It looks like you were posting at the same time I was typing my post above, so I hadn't seen your additional info from the logfile.
When I ran into entries like this:
Code:
unable to open firmware v4l-cx25840.fw
...it was because I had symlinks to the firmware files. Once I copied the ACTUAL FILES to the directory this error went away.
The error I was getting that meant hotplug was not working was something like:
Code:
unable to find firmware
Note "find" rather than "open" in the error message. I doesn't appear that you are running into this situation, so I assume your hotplug is basically working.
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