[linux-dvb] Re: New DVB card

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.com>]

Mattia Martinello wrote:
> I configured my new DVB card on SuSE Linux 9.1.
> How I can check if it is working?
This might be an approriate posting for Gary's
"Go away" response. ;-)

No offense, but your question could be a bit more specific.

What do you mean, "you configured it"?
What type of card?
What exactly is the problem you have?

OK, I'll try to help.

After you installed, you can find out whether it is correctly
recognized using the "lspci -v" command.
One of the entries listed should look like this:

0000:01:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge DVB card rev1.3 or rev1.5
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
        Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

If that is the case, you can try to load the drivers using the
   /etc/init.d/dvb start
command as root.
Three things should happen:

1) The command should return no error messages and a "done".
2) /var/log/messages should now contain messages like this

Nov 15 16:22:17 vdr kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI rev1.3).
Nov 15 16:22:17 vdr kernel: ves1x93: Detected ves1893a rev2
Nov 15 16:22:17 vdr kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (VES1893)...
Nov 15 16:22:17 vdr kernel: adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:1e:8b:ab

3) a "Copyright Convergence" message should briefly appear on
   the connected TV (assuming you have a full-featured card connected
   to a TV).

If all this works, your next step might be to bring up VDR.
See the documentation.

Carsten.