[linux-dvb] Re: No video device found

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Klaus Demleitner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after starting vdr an error occurs: No video device found, giving up!
> 
> According to the various postings it appears to be a driver problem. The OS is SuSE 8.1, the kernel is SuSE's. I use the driver issued on 28.12.2002.
> Some time ago somebody else had a similar problem with an older kernel and an older driver. It had to do with different versions of videodev.c and videodev.h.
> Unfortunately I have no programming experience (at least not in this area) and so I have no idea what to do to fix the problem.
> 
> Has anybody a idea how to resolve this problem. I would help a lot.

If you're not running VDR as 'root' you'll need to give write access
to the user ID you're running VDR under - or simply give write access
to everybody by issuing

  chmod -R o+w /dev/dvb

Klaus
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