[linux-dvb] Re: dvbd broken in 2.4.6?

[Kovacs Andrei <andik@dec.com.ro>]

dvbd is not made for the new api of the 0.9 drivers. i think we'll have to
wait until more ppl need it :)

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Harris" <rharris@cidera.com>
To: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:11 AM
Subject: [linux-dvb] dvbd broken in 2.4.6?


>
> Greetings. I know it's me doing something stupid, but any advise would
> help. I just got a WinTV Nova board and am trying to to configure it to
> take in a UDP data stream from a satellite, but cannot even get dvbd to
> run.
>
> So, I built up a Redhat 7.1 box, and upgraded the kernel to version
> 2.4.6. I then downloaded the latest siemens driver and compiled it,
> seemingly successfully. The kernel modules loaded easily. However, when I
> tried to start dvbd, it exited without any messages and the following was
> left in the syslog:
>
> Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: starting
> Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: Local ip is 10:0:0:103
> Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: GetFlags: No such device
> Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: open: Is a directory
> Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: exiting
>
> I looked in dvbd.c and it was trying to do an ioctl() to /dev/video. Well,
> /dev/video on my 2.4.6 box is a directory with four files:
>
> [root@nova /root]# ls -al /dev/video
> total 88
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jul 13 10:19 .
> drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root        81920 Jul 14 18:49 ..
> crw-------    1 root     root      10, 204 Mar 23 23:38 em8300
> crw-------    1 root     root      10, 206 Mar 23 23:38 em8300_ma
> crw-------    1 root     root      10, 205 Mar 23 23:38 em8300_mv
> crw-------    1 root     root      10, 207 Mar 23 23:38 em8300_sp
>
> So, I changed the /dev/video line to try ioctl()ing to /dev/video0, at
> which point I get:
>
> Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: starting
> Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: Local ip is 172:31:80:103
> Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: ioctl VSFRONTEND: Invalid argument
> Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: exiting
> Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: ioctl SHUTDOWN[0]: Invalid argument
> Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: ioctl SHUTDOWN[1]: Invalid argument
>
> Help!
>
> Isn't /dev/video supposed to be a symlink to /dev/video0 or
> something? What SHOULD it be pointing to?
>
> --Rob
>
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