[linux-dvb] Re: No video device found

["Klaus Demleitner" <klaus.demleitner@epost.de>]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:19:55 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>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
>
Thank you for your reply.
I started VDR as root to be sure that there are no access rights problems. Anyway, I made the change you proposed, but the outcome was the same.

Regards

Klaus Demleitner





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