[vdr] Re: automatic startup of vdr

[Rene Bartsch <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

Am Son, 2002-10-06 um 11.34 schrieb Christoph Rieder:
> Martin Theodor Grewe wrote:
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > Christoph Rieder wrote:
> > 
> >> vdr:4:respawn:/usr/local/bin/vdr --terminal=/dev/tty1 -v /opt/video
> >>
> >> this is IMHO the most elegant way. the problem is: how to load the DVB 
> >> drivers? Following lines in /etc/modules.conf used to work:
> >>
> >> alias char-major-81     videodev
> >> alias char-major-81-0   dvb
> >> alias char-major-250    dvb
> >> options dvb             init_chan=2 pids_off=0
> >> options saa7146_core    mode=0
> >> below saa7146_core     tuner tda8083 L64781 stv0299 VES1893 VES1820
> >> above saa7146_core     saa7146_v4l
> >>
> >> unfortunately this seems to be broken. lsmod shows that all drivers 
> >> are loaded, but when the firmware should get started and tune to ntv 
> >> the screen stays black.
> > 
> > 
> > All drivers are loaded, but you've forgotten to load the firmware.
> > Try this:
> > cd </path/of/dvb/driver>
> > make insmod
> > n-tv is shown.
> 
> thanks for the hint, but i allready fixed this one. if you put the 
> Dparam and Root files in the directory defined by  DVB_FIRM_PATH in 
> dvb.h then the firmware can be loaded independetly of your working 
> directory. i've tested this by insmoding all the drivers "by hand" and 
> it works. but when i do a modprobe dvb (which pulls all the drivers) it 
> does not work. any ideas??
> 

Why so much work?

I just commented out tty1 in inittab and start the runvdr-script from
inittab with respawn on tty1 - works fine, especially when using a
IR-keyboard. You don't have to log in anymore

Rene



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