Boot Problem using P7131 Asus card and DVB

[raffaelefra]

I Have the "My Cinema-P7131 Hybrid" TV card and Kubuntu Gutsy recognize almost completely the card so Analog TV (using tvtime) and FM radio (using Kradio) are absolutely OK.
But in order to run Digital TV (DVB-T) it is necessary to load the firmware (dvb-fe-tda10046.fw)
So I got that firmware (release 29) and copied it in /lib/firmware.
After a worm reboot the firmware was recognized and the DVB-T TV was OK using Kaffeine.
But here comes the problem.

After a shutdown of the computer on the next cold boot the system wont load the normal grafic screen (X mode) giving the following message:

Loading, please wait
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-UUID/-number of my swap partition-) = sda6(8,6)
kinit: trying to resumefrom /dev/disk/by-UUID/-number of my swap partition-
kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot....
Ubuntu 7.10 -my hostname- tty1
-my_hostname- login

So I can login in text mode or typing ctrl-alt-canc the system reboot normally in X mode and DVB is Ok

After a long search trying to solve the problem I discovered that removing the firmware fram /lib/firmware
the system boot normally....but obviously no DVB-T TV.

The system behaviour is the same copying the firmware in /lib/firmware/2.6.22-14-generic

Do I have to do something different to tell the system to load the firmware
or
is it a system bug?

Thanks a lot for any help

[HighHo]

Re: Boot Problem using DVB card

Try typing the following into the consol: sudo fdisk -l | grep swap
Make sure the ID matches that of the swap drive in your fstab file.

[Fintan]

Re: Boot Problem using DVB card

This is just a guess but I had the same problem ages ago.
I hate uuid's they are just a big PITA as far as I am concerned.

I didn't have firmware installed and cannot see how that would influence anything to do with your swap at boot but I got more or less the same message at cold boot so my suggestion would be this:
edit your fstab in sudo:
alt+f2 type:

kdesudo kate /etc/fstab

give your password and edit your fstab so that the swap line looks something like this:

/dev/sdax none swap sw 0 0
#UUID=a070f671-f31b-424f-b830-57da14276f84 none swap sw 0 0

"x" in sdax being the partition number for your swap.

Now your boot process will see the /dev/sdax and not the uuid.

I hope this helps.

[raffaelefra]

Re: Boot Problem using DVB card

Try typing the following into the consol: sudo fdisk -l | grep swap
Make sure the ID matches that of the swap drive in your fstab file.

thanks for the answare
the code fdisk -l gives me the start and end poit of each partition as well as bloks numbers etc.. and in the fstb I can see the UUID number of partitios..... so I have nothing to compare.
Anyway I think that there is no problem on swap partition recognizing.because of the system runs fine without the DVB firmmware and in a worm boot with the DVB firmware.

[HighHo]

Re: Boot Problem using DVB card

Sorry it was the wrong command
The comamnd I should have given was: sudo vol_id -u /dev/xxxx

Replace xxxx with your swap drive partion (hda1 sda1 etc) If your unsure of what it is then you can use the command I gave you before to find it out.
Either way this will output the current uuid ID to check against your fstab file incase there are any issues.

[Fintan]

Re: Boot Problem using DVB card

You can also use

blkid

This will give the output of all your uuid's

[raffaelefra]

Re: Boot Problem using DVB card

Thanks a lot for your replays.
I did control and the UUID for swap (my /dev/sda6) provided by the check commands is exactly the same in fstab.
Thinking to a firmware BUG I also tried to use the version 20 (not the 29) of the firmware dvb-fe-tda10046.fw but the problem is exactly the same.