[vdr] Re: How do you run vdr?

[Peace Monk <peace.monk@gmail.com>]

Where is your TV connected?  Does your dvb card have a tv out?  If
not, you will need to use a softdevice plugin to work with xine in
xwindows.  If you have a mpeg2 decorder card, you can use dxr3 plugin.

If your tv is connected to the dvb card,  and your dvb card is
configured properly, then you should see the onscreen display on the
tv when you start vdr.  It will initially as you to configure your
remote, or keyboard.


On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:07:38 -0500, bob <bobself@charter.net> wrote:
> Now that I appear to have the driver things straightened out I'm going
> to try to run vdr.
> 
> I'm trying version 1.3.11 for now. scan and szap run perfectly.
> 
> lsmod shows:
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> dvb_ttpci              78828  -
> saa7146_vv             44712  -
> video_buf              16748  -
> saa7146                14732  -
> ttpci_eeprom            2024  -
> stv0299                11952  -
> dvb_core               78196  -
> 
> lspci -vv shows:
> 
> 0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
>     Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Technotrend/Hauppauge DVB
> card rev2.1
>     Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>     Latency: 64 (3750ns min, 9500ns max)
>     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
>     Region 0: Memory at dffffe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> 
> I was able to build vdr 1.3.11.  I'm running as root (for now).
> 
> If I type ./vdr it appears to run.
> 
> /var/log/everything/current shows:
> 
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] VDR version 1.3.11 started
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] loading /video/setup.conf
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] loading /video/sources.conf
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] loading /video/diseqc.conf
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] loading /video/channels.conf
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] loading /video/ca.conf
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] found 1 video device
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] setting primary device to 1
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] SVDRP listening on port 2001
> Nov  3 10:34:10 [vdr] loading /video/themes/classic-default.theme
> 
> So, what am I supposed to see? Something on the tv screen? (It is black).
> Do you need to be running xwindows?
> 
> thanks,
> bob
> 
>