How to Load firmware for the Altera Chip ?

[masq_man]

Greetings,
I have an older Hauppauge Tv card (WinTV PCI) that is almost working in Ubuntu Edgy. The Video works fine, but I suspect that the firmware for the Altera Chip is not loading, and therefor I have no audio. After searching for similar problems I found a reference to putting the firmware file (hcwAMC.rbf) from the Hauppauge CD into /lib/firmware/2.6.17.11-generic folder and restarting. This was the problem: bttv.c was looking for "hcwamc.rbf", it was a simply the in the wrong case!

Still no luck. If I first boot in windows then restart in linux it does work, but what a pain..

Any suggestions for this nubee would be appreciated. Thanks..

Below is the portion of dmesg I think is relevant:

[ 36.079535] Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[ 36.159143] bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
[ 36.159147] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[ 36.159195] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[ 36.159672] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 18
[ 36.159677] GSI 21 sharing vector 0x3A and IRQ 21
[ 36.159684] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 58
[ 36.159693] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:04:08.0, irq: 58, latency: 64, mmio: 0xbfefe000
[ 36.159704] bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV/PVR [card=80], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:4500
[ 36.159707] bttv0: using: Hauppauge WinTV PVR [card=80,autodetected]
[ 36.159737] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[ 36.197881] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 36.198001] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x77, irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
[ 36.273688] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 36.475256] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 36.730475] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
[ 37.135707] bttv0: no altera firmware [via hotplug]
[ 37.224985] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 45231, rev C423, serial# 4053259
[ 37.224988] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1236 (idx 23, type 2)
[ 37.224991] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x0
[ 37.224994] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP3435 (idx 10)
[ 37.224996] tveeprom 0-0050: has radio
[ 37.224998] bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom indicates model#45231
[ 37.225000] bttv0: using tuner=2
[ 37.225111] bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
[ 37.227243] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
[ 37.229371] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
[ 37.368644] drivers/media/video/spca5xx/spca5xx-main.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Logitech QC Communicate STX
[ 37.370143] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
[ 37.451917] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[ 37.498683] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
[ 37.520367] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt878 #0 [sw])
[ 37.520397] tuner 0-0061: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles))
[ 37.550315] bttv0: registered device video0
[ 37.550331] bttv0: registered device vbi0
[ 37.550344] bttv0: registered device radio0
[ 37.550365] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .<5>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 37.568313] . ok
[ 37.587072] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNEC] enabled at IRQ 17
[ 37.587078] GSI 22 sharing vector 0x42 and IRQ 22
[ 37.587085] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> Link [LNEC] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 66
[ 37.587092] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
[ 37.587239] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Fri Dec 15 10:19:35 PST 2006
[ 37.587850] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] enabled at IRQ 23
[ 37.587854] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[b] -> Link [LAZA] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[ 37.587931] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.1 to 64
[ 37.703277] bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
[ 38.153550] usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
[ 38.153555] drivers/media/video/spca5xx/spca5xx-main.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.08 registered
[ 38.158412] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 38.159648] bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
[ 38.159666] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:08.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 58
[ 38.159673] bt878_probe: card id=[0x45000070], Unknown card.
[ 38.159674] Exiting..

[chatan]

Awesome ! This post is all I needed after hours and hours of trying to find the solution to the same "no audio" problem.

The details in my case so it might help someone else:
My hardware is: Hauppauge WinTV PCI model 45231, rev D523
My OS is: PCLINUXOS 2007

The HCWAMC.RBF file is on the Hauppauge CD. On my CD it was in the /pvr/pvr45xxx.EXE file (open the EXE file with ark and extract the HCWAMC.RBF file)

The hcwamc.rbf file (all lowercase!) needed to be put in the /lib/firmware/ folder

dmesg before:
bttv0: no altera firmware
dmesg after:
bttv0: altera firmware upload ok

Make sure the audio patch cord is installed from tvcard to mic input and in kmix make sure the mic in switch is on and turned-up.

Cheers!