[linux-dvb] Re: FC3, new NOVA-T model, xawtv and sysfs/udev

[lamikr <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi>]

Hi

Another option, instead of creating nodes with makedev.sh,
is to set dvb specific rules under /etc/udev.

See documentation from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dvb/udev.txt.
This will however require pretty new kernel or building dvb drivers from 
the tv-time orgs website.
(2.6.8 is not new enought)

I submitted patches to Linux Mandrake and they added these rules to 
udev.rpm coming with the Mandkrake 10.1.
(Official 2.6.8 kernel coming with Mandrake 10.1 does not has new 
enought dvb drivers,
but their 2.6.7 multimedia kernel in contrib has newer dvb drivers which 
are correctly detected by the udev rules.)

So if you need help for writing those rules, just download

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/cooker/media/main/udev-030-24mdk.i586.rpm
extract it with cpio (see http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/cpio.php)
and check following files for help
   /etc/udev/permissions.d/00-udev.permissions   (cat 
00-udev.permissions | grep dvb)
   /etc/udev/rules.d/ 06-dvb.rules
   /etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh

Mika

Bernd Bartmann wrote:

> Hi
>
> I just got DVB-T running on Fedora Core 3 using the new NOVA-T model, 
> xawtv4, the FC3 kernel and the patch from: 
> http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.9-rc4-1/All-2.6.9-rc4.diff.gz
>
> After rebooting to the new kernel kudzu detected the card and I only 
> had to "modprobe cx88_dvb". The only problem that remains for me is 
> that the /dvb/dvb/* devices are not created automatically by 
> sysfs/udev. After every reboot I have to run MAKEDEV-DVB.sh to get the 
> device nodes.
>
> If there is enough interest I can write a short howto with 
> instructions on how to get all this up and running on FC3.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bernd.