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

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@gmx.de>]

Ari Huttunen wrote:
> 
> 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?

No but you can use runvdr directly in any terminal. The initscript
puts runvdr on tty9.

> 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.

It's probably vidmode=2 rather than vidmode:analog. There are just
spaces missing in the modinfo output.

> (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.)

Should be the same.

> 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:

The channels.conf in the package is for DVB-S. I don't know what the
procedure is to get a DVB-C channels.conf. Maybe something like 

dvbscan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c/fi-3ktv -o vdr > /etc/vdr/channels.conf

gets you started.
 
> >>>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 

I don't know exactly anymore. F1-F4 are color keys.

cu
Ludwig

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