[linux-dvb] Re: /dev/vbi for EPG

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Tobias.Stoetter@btignite.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i am using a slakware (2.2.16) box with 2 siemens cards installed, DBV 0.8.2 and
> VDR 0.7.2. Slakware does not install any video device by default, so it took me
> a while to find out that:
> mknod -m 0666 /dev/video0 c 81 0 is my friend.
> After some trials and accidents i additionally found out that:
> mknod -m 0666 /dev/video1 c 81 1 sets up the second device. Is that correct?
> Anyway, it works so that i can use time shift now, but i recognised that the EPG
> does not work. In an article in the german c`t magazine i read that the VDR EPG
> requires the device /dev/vbi. I tried for hours to find out how to install that
> device but in the end i had to give up. Can anyone give me a hint what the
> parameters are to build that bloody device.

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Jan 11 15:44 /dev/vbi -> vbi0
crw-rw----   1 root     video     81, 224 Jul 23  1999 /dev/vbi0
crw-rw----   1 root     video     81, 225 Jul 23  1999 /dev/vbi1
crw-rw----   1 root     video     81, 226 Jul 23  1999 /dev/vbi2
crw-rw----   1 root     video     81, 227 Jul 23  1999 /dev/vbi3

Klaus
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