[linux-dvb] Re: VDR problem.

[Allan Jacobsen <allan@image.dk>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Allan Jacobsen wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I sold my old PC where I have been running VDR for over
> > a year, but I am having problems now when I have moved
> > the card to another old PC.
> > As I am still on a 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) I downloaded
> > the DVB driver version 0.8.2 and the VDR version 0.7.2
> > The hardware driver compiles fine and loads OK, but
> > the vdr program can not find the device.
> > I have looked through the sources and it looks like the
> > hardware driver uses devices in /dev/ost/... while vdr
> > look for /dev/video...
> > I tried to simply make /dev/video with the same major
> > and minor numbers as /dev/ost/video but no luck.
> > Anyone with any good ideas ?
> 
> The combination "driver 0.8.2" and "VDR 0.72" should work together
> just fine. Are you _absolutely_, _positively_ sure you are using
> _that_ combination?
> 

Yes 8-(

The files are "siemens_dvb-0.8.2.tar.gz" and "vdr-0.72.tgz"
respectively, sizes 651965 and 197335 bytes.

I just recompiled both the driver and vdr to be 100% sure.

This is the content of the syslog:
Jul 12 23:25:54 ghost kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module
Jul 12 23:25:55 ghost kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Jul 12 23:25:55 ghost kernel: saa7146_core.o: saa7146(1): bus:0, rev:1,
mem:0xc8859c00.
Jul 12 23:25:55 ghost kernel: VES1893: attaching VES1893 at 0x10 to
adapter saa7146(1)
Jul 12 23:25:58 ghost kernel: dvb: ARM firmware successfully loaded.
Jul 12 23:25:58 ghost kernel: dvb: firmware = f0240009
Jul 12 23:25:58 ghost kernel: dvb: MAC = 00 d0 5c 1e a3 4e 
Jul 12 23:25:58 ghost kernel: dvb: 1 dvb(s) found!
Jul 12 23:25:58 ghost kernel: tuner: chip found @ 0x61
Jul 12 23:26:28 ghost kernel: dvb: 1 dvb(s) released properly.
Jul 12 23:26:28 ghost kernel: VES1893: detach_client
Jul 12 23:26:29 ghost kernel: VES1893: attaching VES1893 at 0x10 to
adapter saa7146(1)
Jul 12 23:26:31 ghost kernel: dvb: ARM firmware successfully loaded.
Jul 12 23:26:31 ghost kernel: dvb: firmware = f0240009
Jul 12 23:26:31 ghost kernel: dvb: MAC = 00 d0 5c 1e a3 4e 
Jul 12 23:26:31 ghost kernel: dvb: 1 dvb(s) found!
Jul 12 23:26:31 ghost kernel: tuner: chip found @ 0x61
Jul 12 23:29:03 ghost vdr[883]: VDR version 0.72 started
Jul 12 23:29:03 ghost vdr[883]: loading /video/setup.conf
Jul 12 23:29:03 ghost vdr[883]: loading /video/channels.conf
Jul 12 23:29:04 ghost vdr[883]: loading /video/keys-pc.conf
Jul 12 23:29:04 ghost vdr[883]: ERROR: no video device found, giving up!

This is "cat /proc/devices":
Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  7 vcs
 10 misc
 81 video_capture
128 ptm
136 pts
249 ost/ca
250 ost/video
251 ost/sec
252 ost/audio
253 ost/frontend
254 ost/demux

Block devices:
  2 fd
  8 sd
 65 sd

and this is lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by
tuner                   3792   0  (unused)
dvb                  2945840   1 
dvb_demux               4576   0  [dvb]
dmxdev                  5344   0  [dvb]
VES1820                 3264   0  (unused)
VES1893                 3184   0  (unused)
saa7146_v4l            14864   0  (unused)
saa7146_core           13360   0  [dvb saa7146_v4l]
videodev                2720   2  [dvb]
i2c-core               10240   0  [tuner dvb VES1820 VES1893
saa7146_core]
ca                       624   0  (unused)
frontend                 720   0  (unused)
sec                      624   0  (unused)
audio                    768   0  (unused)
video                    800   0  (unused)
dmx                      832   0  (unused)
demux                    576   1  [dvb dvb_demux]
dvbdev                  1376   1  [dvb ca frontend sec audio video dmx]
ne                      6288   1 
8390                    6080   0  [ne]

It look very much like something is wrong in /dev but
what....


-- 
MVH / Best Regards
Allan Jacobsen, AJ17-DK


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