[pvrusb2] WinTV-HVR-1950 will not load firmware

[Michael Krufky]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Michael Krufky wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:
>
>   [...]
>
>> >
>> > The problem he's describing looks a lot like the FX2 firmware is not
>> > correct.  That has nothing to do with tuner / demod components.  Ken
>> > e-mailed me directly 2 days ago with other issues involving firmware
>> > extraction - I just hadn't replied yet (I did a few minutes ago
>> > however).  There are a number of avenues to chase to get that FX2
>> > firmware straightened out.  I will followup on this later tonight once I
>> > have the right pieces in front of me to help.
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Are you sure this isn't the "dont disconnect from usb" problem that
>> you fixed a few months ago?
>
> I'm not sure of anything at the moment :-)
>
> But given what I've seen in the past it smells like bad firmware.  The
> key symptom is that it didn't come back to life for him after the FX2
> firmware was reloaded - and then when he let Windows load the firmware
> he got a lot farther.
>
> A little voice is telling me that Hauppauge has probably updated the
> driver CD and that this is (at least temporarily) complicating the
> firmware part of the setup process.

OK, well, if that's the problem, you can see if a known to work
firmware image solves the problem.  Try the one located here:

http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr1950/v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw

I hope this helps.

-Mike Krufky