[linux-dvb] Re: /dev/dvb/* unusable after upgrade to kernel 2.6.8.1

[Michael Hunold <hunold-ml@web.de>]

Hi,

On 04.10.2004 01:43, Daniele Primon wrote:
> ||I've recently upgraded from kernel 2.6.7 to 2.6.8.1 to avoid some
> issues, by other means not related with my skystar2 I think. Issuing
> szap to tune a channel with the previous kernel worked fine but now I
> got this message.
>
> |debian:~# szap opensky -c /home/esa/.szap/channels.conf.old reading
> channels from file '/home/esa/.szap/channels.conf.old' zapping to 551
> 'OpenSky': sat 2, frequency = 11262 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid =
> 0x0000, apid = 0x0000 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and
> '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' opening frontend failed: No such device
>
> |Neither dvbnet work anymore... The kernel modules skystar2, mt312 and
> dvb-core are loaded. Please, anyone has suggestions on what to do?
The DVB major device number has been changed from the experimental 250 
to the official 212.

http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/diffs/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.h@1.13?nav=index.html|src/.|src/drivers|src/drivers/media|src/drivers/media/dvb|src/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core|hist/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.h

If you are using static /dev/ entries (ie. no devfs, no udev), then you 
need to re-create the device nodes with the new device major number, for 
example by using the MAKEDEV-DVB.sh script.

http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dvb-kernel/MAKEDEV-DVB.sh?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

CU
Michael.