[linux-dvb] mandrake 9.2 rpms and dvb modules / Re: dvb-s rpm

[Guido Draheim <guidod-2003-@gmx.de>]

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chris wrote:
> hi guido,
> I installed your rpm package on my mdk 9.2 with nexus dvb-s 2.1. No problem 
> now :-)
Hey chris,
great to hear you manged to get it work, sorry for not having done much about
mailinglist this week, I was quite busy.

> Just a few questions:
> 1- do you have a file summarizing where you put the stuff (i mean apps, 
> driver...). I noticed that you used /usr/bin for the apps and renamed them to 
> dvb-*. ?
well, that's simply rpm standard - I did push them to %_bindir.
The kernel modules are pushed to the location where they are the original
mdk (broken) dvb modules. Just so people can find them if they look at them.
Rest of the initialization files goes to /etc/dvb/* aka %_sysconfdir/dvb

> 2- I am using a preconfigured channels.conf with dvb-szap since I can't manage 
> to get dvb-scan work but this file is incomplete.. Where is any doc on scan 
> apps ?
in older times, it was just working with some builtin - in newer scan one
would need an external initialization file. Basically it holds some start
frequency (for tuner), if I ever got that right. That was also made since
there were more and more people having unusual ether settings around that
were not compiled into the single only binary 'scan'.

I was trying to build new dvb apps lately but the work was stalled due to
some discussions and problems with new dvb-kernel modules - and the last
week  I had no time due to continue on it. I'll check in for tests next,
see the mailing list archive on the details.

> 3- do I need to run apps as root because /dev/dvb/adapter0/* are owned by 
> root. If I change owner of course at startup root changes this again...
Absolutly NO NO NO! My rpms should autocreate a "video" group and install
a devfs conf that will make the dvb devivces chgrp video. Just add all your
users to group "video". That group was pretty standard on mandrake systems
for a long time but later they did remove it - and only conditionally
made by some rpms, and AFAIR in 9.2 not even that anymore. That may be the
source of the problem since older installations already have all the
users in group video, aaargh.

> I know it's a lot a question but it's rather hard to enter in the 'dvb word' 
> :-)
yo ;-)

> thanks again
> chris
>
> ps: I abuse, if you know about a rpm for vdr ... because when I remember all 
> the problems with the installation of driver...
I am not sure, I remember a fine hacker Steffen Barszus who did package vdr,
just google for vdr+cooker perhaps. He is also the guy to make all the isdn
modules for mandrake, just for a reference work, and a nice guy as well.

Btw, if you need rpms, always google for name+cooker - the mandrake people
do _not_ push everything proposed on cooker to their own rpm repository.
In fact I remember an upload to their incoming area that popped up 5 months
later in their contrib download area. I mean, _five_ months! That's about
inacceptable by all standards I know, there were dozens up updates inbetween.

have fun,
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