[vdr] Re: Finding channels

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Gavin Hamill wrote:

>On Monday 06 January 2003 1:37 pm, you wrote:
>> ><nod> hence why 'ves1820' is listed in 'lsmod' output as being used '1'
>> > times when all the other frontend modules are used '0' times =)
>>
>> Doh! :)
>
>Sometimes the answer's just staring you in the face ;)
>
>If you're using a DVB driver from before December 2002, as soon as you load 
>the modules, the card will be active and churning out a /lot/ of heat... 
>consider using a driver from Dec onwards, then the card will only be 'live' 
>when you're actually using an application like dvbstream / VDR, etc.

I used a CVS version. That one *might* be broken too, one never knows with
stuff in CVS. I didn't find any officially packaged versions of the driver
that weren't over a year old (except the one on Klaus' VDR page, which
uses the old interface).

>> Hmm, I do have an old BT878 in there, that was the former card I had, but
>> the modules for that card don't get loaded. Will recompile and see if it
>> has any effect.
>
>Yes, 'videodev' is just the core support for /dev/video devices... your BT878 
>will only start working if you load the 'bttv' module (and it'll probably 
>drag in a load of helper modules like tuner, tvaudio, msp3400, etc. for the 
>other chips on the BT878 card...)

Ok, so 'videodev' has zip and nada to do with DVB then?

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