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

[Bernd Bartmann <Bernd.Bartmann@t-online.de>]

lamikr wrote:
> 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)
I find mc a better better tool to browse through rpm files.

> 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
Cool, thanks. As FC3 is brand new and has all the latest tools and 
kernel-2.6.9 I guess adding these rules will work. I'll try this.

Best regards,
Bernd.