[vdr] AW: Help Needed with VDR configuration???

["Qwasi" <qwasi_1999@yahoo.de>]

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> Von: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org] 
> Im Auftrag von raid517
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 13:43
> An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Betreff: [vdr] Help Needed with VDR configuration???
> 
> 
> Hi can anyone point me to any docs that will help me to 
> configure VDR on 
> my Debian unstable system? I installed VDR and a bunch of plugins via 
> apt-get. Then being the simple sort I am I opened a command 
> prompt and 
> typed VDR.  Unfortunately after doing so I was greeted by a message 
> saying : vdr: error while reading '/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf'. So I 
> dumped a working channels.conf file in there from my existing Xine 
> directory, checked the permisions on it and to that directory so that 
> VDR had full access rights thinking everything would be 
> straightforward 
> and ran the command again, only to be confronted by the 
> message that yet 
> again vdr had encountered an 'error while reading 
> '/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf''. So I did man VDR thinking I 
> only needed 
> to read a little more to figure it out. Sadly the manual gave 
> no hints 
> about how to configure VDR at all.  What is the problem and 
> why can't it 
> read this file? Any hints, tips or suggestions on how to 
> configure VDR 
> and get it up and running would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Edit:
> 
> It seems it can read the included satelite and cable 
> channels.conf but 
> it cannot read the provided DVB-T channels.conf - nor can it 
> read my own 
> DVB-T channels.conf. So the problem with it not being able to 
> read the 
> channels.conf file is restricted to the terrestrial 
> channels.conf files 
> only.
> 

What about using the init-scripts!?
/etc/init.d/vdr start
Will do a good job ...

LG
Roman


> Which all in all is pretty odd.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> GJ
> 
>