[vdr] ERROR: channel 1 not sync'ed on DVB card

[Axel Röhken <roehken@web.de>]

Hi, Hi
I tried using vdr / dvb-s with mandrake.
my pc has an DVB-S-Card from Siemens (Rev. 1.3).
My Problem:
DVB-S modules get loaded well after compiling without errors
(I'm using siemens_dvb-0.9.4-2002-03-16)

After recompiling pre4 of vdr 1.0 (vdr-1.0.0pre4) I started the vdr with
vdr -v /video

/var/log/messages shows this:

Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: VDR version 1.0.0pre4 started
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: loading /video/setup.conf
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: loading /video/channels.conf
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: loading /video/keys-pc.conf
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: probing /dev/ost/frontend0
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9412]: EIT processing thread started (pid=9412) -
master
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: probing /dev/ost/frontend1
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: found 1 video device
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: setting primary DVB to 1
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: reading EPG data from /video/epg.data
Mär 31 18:53:59 video vdr[9410]: switching to channel 1
Mär 31 18:54:01 video vdr[9410]: ERROR: channel 1 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
Mär 31 18:54:01 video vdr[9410]: panic level: 0
Mär 31 18:54:01 video vdr[9410]: retrying
Mär 31 18:54:04 video vdr[9410]: ERROR: channel 1 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
Mär 31 18:54:04 video vdr[9410]: panic level: 1
Mär 31 18:54:04 video vdr[9410]: retrying
Mär 31 18:54:06 video vdr[9410]: ERROR: channel 1 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
Mär 31 18:54:06 video vdr[9410]: panic level: 2
Mär 31 18:54:06 video vdr[9410]: retrying
Mär 31 18:54:06 video vdr[9410]: SVDRP listening on port 2001

lsmod lists the follwing modules (when started the vdr):

[root@video root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
dvb                   233296  19
dvb_frontend            3584   0  [dvb]
dvb_demux              13280   1  [dvb]
saa7146_v4l            15248   0  (unused)
saa7146_core           13968   0  [dvb saa7146_v4l]
tuner                   6176   1
stv0299                 3088   0  (unused)
tda8083                 2480   0  (unused)
SP8870                  2784   0  (unused)
L64781                  3744   0  (unused)
VES1820                 3696   0  (unused)
VES1893                 3888   1
dmxdev                  7680   1  [dvb]
dvb_filter              7584   0  [dvb]
videodev                5056   1  [dvb]
i2c-core               13600   0  [dvb dvb_frontend saa7146_core tuner
stv0299 tda8083 SP8870 L64781 VES1820 VES1893]
dvb_net                 4016   0  [dvb]
dvbdev                  1952  20  [dvb]
af_packet              12560   0  (autoclean)
ip_vs                  62000   0  (autoclean)
usb-ohci               18880   0  (unused)
usbcore                50752   1  [usb-ohci]
ne2k-pci                5248   1  (autoclean)
8390                    6432   0  (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
ide-scsi                8096   0
scsi_mod               91072   1  [ide-scsi]
rtc                     5600   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   63084   1
jbd                    39168   1  [ext3]

Can anybody help ?
I had the same problem with earlier version of vdr. (0.72, 0.82, etc.)

My Linux is Mandrake 8.1. I also tried Suse 6.3 and 7.0 and 7.2.
All the same.

The sat-hardware works, when using a sat-receiver and the same cable,etc.

The channels.conf is from the distribution package of vdr-1.0.0pre4. I live
near Berlin(Germany).

Thanx for help.

greetings

axel