[linux-dvb] Newbie help : No TV output

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Dany Schuerewegen writes:
 > I am having trouble watching TV with my DVB-S card ( Technotrend Rev 1.3 )
 > When I start tuxview, I get the following error:
 > 
 > >tuxview -d 0
 > setting dev to /dev/video0
 > get capabilities: Unknown error 515
 > no overlay possible
 > no capture possible
 > get window: unknown error 515
 > get frame buffer: unknown error 515
 > 
 > I tried to get the gVideo app, ( from version 0.8.2 ) and it gave me the


 > same 'unknown error 515' whenever it tries to do an ioctl on /dev/ost/video0
 > ( linked to /dev/video and /dev/video0).

Why did you do that?!?!?!  (I mean the linking, not starting gVideo)

/dev/video0 is a Video4Linux device and not a DVB device. 
It should be set up by any (normal) Linux distribution as device node
with major 81 and minor 0.


Ralph


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