[vdr] Re: Easiest way for VDR 1.3x with Suse 9.2?

[Ari Huttunen <hagrid@saunalahti.fi>]

Ludwig Nussel wrote:

> > > > # yast -i vdr && rcdvb start && rcvdr start
> > > >        
> > > I did that and.. nothing. How non-inspiring. No error messages and no
> > > output on my television.
> > >      
> Check for vdr error messages on console 9 and in /var/log/messages
>  
Thanks Ludwig, now I'm finally getting somewhere. Note to other 
beginning Suse users, you can get to console 9 by pressing ctrl-alt-f9, 
and back by pressing ctrl-alt-f7, from KDE that is. There's probably 
some way to attach a KDE Konsole to it as well, I guess?

There was one problem in that messages file related to DVB: dvb_ttpci: 
Unknown parameter vidmode:analog
The thing is, I have an S-video cable connected to the card, and when I 
recompiled the DVB driver myself I needed to make a change for "vidmode 
= CVBS_YC_OUT" in av7110.c. Now I think I made the equivalent change in 
YaST TV card configuration, but it doesn't seem the driver likes it.

(I did at some point download the latest DVB card firmware from 
thttp://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/ and put that in the 
hotplug directory, which may perhaps affect something. This was before I 
got Ludwig's info.)

Another reason why I don't get anything on TV is that VDR can't find the 
channels; channels.conf is for some other country. Now I'm a at a loss 
of what to feed it, it contains lines like this:

Das Erste:11837:h:S19.2E:27500:101:102:104:0:28106:1:1101:0

I have two different formats available, but neither looks the same or 
does it?

TV1:283:M128:C:5900:::0:0:17:0:0:0

and the other:

TV1:283000:C0M128:C:5900:512+128:650=eng:2321:1:17:0:1:0

I think this latter one is exclusively for VDR 1.3, or what? (They're 
for Finland.)

> > > How am I 
> > > supposed to control VDR? I want to control it via a keyboard at first,
> > > and switch to LIRC a bit later, but mainly I'd just prefer it to work
> > > somehow. Unfortunately Suse installation messed up my computer and I no
> > > longer can boot Mandrake, so I've no working VDR at the moment..
> > >      
> > Delete or rename /etc/vdr/remote.conf while vdr is not running. Next time vdr 
> > is loaded it should prompt you for key codes - you'll need to change to 
> > console 9 to allow input and control.
> >    
> The default remote.conf has some keys bound already.
>  
And it is documented somewhere which functionality is bound to which 
key, right? Channels.conf is not exactly readable. But no matter, I'll 
redo them anyway. At least when I get to LIRC stuff, where I use my Sony 
TV's remote via a serial receiver.

Ari Huttunen