[linux-avc2210k] Re: Success with latest adaptec (v1.3) firmware
- From: Dr J A Gow <J.A.Gow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-avc2210k@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:19:19 +0100
Hi,
Nice work! And thanks for the info! Especially that useful hint about
the firmware update fixing the device crash. It seems I won't have to
figure out a workaround for this in the driver after all, which in turn
will ensure that the driver code stays clean.
Unfortunately with the current limits on my available time, I tend to
use it to write code rather than docs...
If you, or anyone else would like to volunteer to help to write some
decent docs for this driver, please feel free. I would welcome it and
the docs would certainly be distributed with the package.
John.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 00:49 +0100, j t wrote:
> Hi John.
>
> I thought I'd have a go at getting Adaptec's latest firmware to work,
> and I appear to have been successful...
>
> I've only have an avc-2210, so that's all I can test. Hopefully the
> same will work for the avc-2310.
>
> Firstly, I checked the downloads from:
> http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/Video/prod/AVC-2210/
>
> Incidentally, the md5sums for the downloads for the Windows XP
> zipfiles (versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3) are identical to the md5sums for
> the downloads for the Windows 2000 zipfiles (corresponding version
> numbers), so the windows drivers/firmware files must be identical.
>
> After unpacking each of the XP zipfiles, I compared the md5sums
> against those of the files on my CD - the firmware files on the CD
> match those available in the version 1.2 zipfile download. NB: the
> filenames from the version 1.2 download are all uppercase - these need
> to be changed to lowercase for the files to be usable:
> for i in * ; do mv "${i}" "$( echo ${i} | tr [A-Z] [a-z] )" ; done
>
> Then I thought I'd have a go at getting the 1.3 version to work. Once
> I'd worked out that the only file that I needed for device
> re-enumeration (via multiload) was avcuwfl.sys, I just compared the
> 1.2 version with the 1.3 version using "hd avcuwfl.sys | less".
> Snooping around, I found similar hexcodes in the later version
> positioned slightly after those in the earlier version. Then I
> modified /etc/multiload.conf with the new numbers:
>
> block INTERNAL WINSYS1, /var/lib/firmware/avcuwfl.sys,0x3b00,0x0512
> block INTERNAL WINSYS1, /var/lib/firmware/avcuwfl.sys,0x08a0,0x3230
>
> rather than:
>
> block INTERNAL WINSYS1, /var/lib/firmware/avcuwfl.sys,0x3ac8,0x0512
> block INTERNAL WINSYS1, /var/lib/firmware/avcuwfl.sys,0x0880,0x3230
>
> When I switched my avc-2210 off and on again, back came the green
> light. Whoopee!!
>
> Then I copied the rest of the contents of the 1.3 zipfile to
> /var/lib/firmware, ran:
> avcctrl -i -f PAL -t MPEG2 -q BEST -s COMPOSITE -v 0
> and everything started working.
>
> Regarding the ".ux" and the ".ax" files, lots of md5sum'ming shows
> that there has been no change between 1.2 (the version distributed on
> cd) and 1.3 (the latest).
>
> Any chance of putting some of this info into the docs? (I'd hate it if
> others had to cover the same ground, so to speak). I've lots more info
> to write, but I'll leave it at this for one night.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jaime :-)
>
>
>
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