[linux-dvb] Re: video_dev: unable to get major 250

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

Rudolf Martin wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to bring my dvb-s-card to live for several weeks but I don't
> succeed.
>
> I'm running Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.6.7.
>
> I got a FF dvb-s-card.
> lspci tells:
> 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
>
> I want to load the dvb-drivers manually, like the way in the
> kernel-documentation.
> /sys/class/firmware/ is existing. Timeout includes 180.
>
> modprobe dvb-ttpci (as root) shows following messages:
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> video_dev: unable to get major 250
> dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol dvb_dmxdev_init
> dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol dvb_register_i2c_bus
> dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol dvb_ringbuffer_free
> ............
>
> What is the problem?
> Can anyone give me a hint or a link to a solution?
>  
Please check /proc/devices and try to find out which driver is hogging 
on the 250 major. In any case recent CVS snapshots of the DVB driver use 
major 212. You can either #define DVB_MAJOR 212 in your code or use a 
more recent DVB snapshot.

Holger