Re: Error: firmware not found

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At 22 Jan 2005 18:37:36 -0800,
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 02:37, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > Since my echoaudio driver is the first driver which is using the new
> > "standard" firmware loader, I can anticipate what you have to expect when
> > other drivers will be converted to that interface: people will not be able
> > to make them work.
> > 
> > I don't know what distributions are doing, but it is causing users (and, in
> > turn, to me) a lot of trouble. I located these main problems in the latest
> > hotplug scripts (hotplug-2004_09_23):
> > 
> > - /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent sets FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware, but
> > alsa-firmware install the files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware .
> 
> Yes, I noticed this and I'm packaging for fc3 / Planet CCRMA (which uses
> /lib/firmware) by setting that directory explicitly in the alsa-firmware
> configure step. I have at least two users that have successfully used
> echoaudio cards. 

IMO, it's a bug of hotplug if it doesn't look at the old path,
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.  Of course, passing the proper path to
configure script would be the best solution, though.


Takashi


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