[linux-dvb] 2 identical cards, devicesnums sometimes exchanged OT?

[bluez at thomae-privat.de]

Hi,

Andreas wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> i encountered a silly problem with lirc (or linux-dvb). Im using 2 aver
> dvb-t 771 cards inside
> my pc. Sometimes (after restart), the device-number is exchanged with the
> number from
> other card - this put me into a small problem, cause im using just one
> remote receiver of
> just one card. Is there any way to prevent that? Ive not any clue, why
> sometimes my
> receiver is on /dev/event2 and sometimes on /dev/event3.
> 
> Sorry for crossposting, i am not sure, where to place it correctly.
> 
> Maybe its not lirc-related cause the event-device it swapped and this is job
> of the
> dvb-modules, or...?
> 
> This all is more interesting than annoying.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Andreas

I solved this with udev, which can automatically create links to the 
desired devices (in my case one USB and one PCI).

The rules I used are:

# make stable symlink for IR of Technotrend DVB card
KERNEL="event*", SYSFS{name}=="DVB on-card IR receiver", 
NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/ir_dvb_ttpci"

# make stable symlink for IR of Cinergy T2 USB DVB adapter
KERNEL="event*", SYSFS{name}=="TerraTec/qanu USB2.0 Highspeed DVB-T 
Receiver remote control", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/ir_dvb_cint2usb"

Matthias