[vdr] Re: "no DVB device found" after upgrade to kernel 2.6.9

[Wolfgang Fritz <wolfgang.fritz@gmx.net>]

Dick Streefland wrote:
> After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.7 to 2.6.9, vdr reports "no DVB
> device found" on startup, and shows no picture. I've configure the
> 2.6.9 kernel by copying the .config from the old kernel, and running
> "make oldconfig". I'm not using any modules, everything is compiled
> into the kernel, including the firmware for my FF DVB-S card. As far
> as I can see, the card is properly recognized:
> 
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:12.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:09.0
> saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem c6810c00 (revision 1, irq 10) (0x13c2,0x0000).
> DVB: registering new adapter (Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI rev1.3).
> ves1x93: Detected ves1893a rev2
> DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (VES1893)...
> Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI rev1.3 adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:00:d0:bf
> gpioirq unknown type=0 len=0
> DVB: AV7111(0) - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 8000261b
> DVB: AV7111(0) - firmware supports CI link layer interface
> av7110(0): adac type set to 0
> videodev: "av7110" has no release callback. Please fix your driver for proper sysfs support, see http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/
> saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device video0 [v4l2]
> av7110: found av7110-0.
> 
> The only difference between the 2.6.7 and 2.6.9 kernels is this:
> 
> < saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem c680fc00 (revision 1, irq 10) (0x13c2,0x0000).
> ---
> 
>>saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem c6810c00 (revision 1, irq 10) (0x13c2,0x0000).
> 
> 
> When I strace vdr, I see:
> 
> open("/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
> 

Some time ago the DVB major device number changed from 250 to 212.
What does "ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" show?


> Any ideas what could be the problem?
>