[linux-dvb] DVB-Newbie needs help

[Wolfgang Wershofen <wolfgang@wershofen.com>]

Hi everybody,

  I am quite a newbie to LINUX-DVB so don't punish me for asking stupid
  or long answered questions.

  I am participating in a pilot project for dsl via satellite in
  Germany. Along with that I purchased a "Technotrend budget PCI"
  DVB-card and everything is working quit well under Windows, although
  I'm getting more and more to the point that this card wasn't the best
  choice (speaking of tv-performance).

  Since M$-Win is not my favorite OS, I'd like to get both networking
  and digital tv running under Linux. At this point I have gone through
  one week of nightshifts with gathering informations, downloading
  drivers, software, howto's, compiling, installing, reconfiguring and
  testing and I seem to got stuck! Neither networking nor digital tv is
  working so I urgently need some help. Maybe I can't see the forest
  for the trees.

  Ok, so how is my situation now:

  Hardware:
  Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz, 512 MB SDRAM, K7S5A Mainboard, ATI Radeon
  ViVo 64MB DDR, TT budget PCI DVB-card

  Software:
  SuSE Linux 7.3, XFree 4.1.0, Kernel 2.4.10-4GB

  Let's at first leave the networking aspect aside, because I have not
  yet been into this too far. I concentrated on digital tv in the last
  few days because I thought it was easier to set up.

  I downloaded the tarball siemens_dvb_0.9-lastest from
  linuxtv.org and compiled it according to the respective README-files.
  I had to install some more features from the distribution but finally
  I succeeded in compiling the driver, the libs and the tuxzap software.
  As far as /var/log/messages tells the whole story, "make insmod" of
  the drivers works fine, since no warnings or errors are displayed
  there.
  Feeling lucky about that, I started X. First I tried tuxzap, which
  seemed to work. Ok, channel-switching without picture is a dull test,
  so I started tuxview, which I understood as being my tv-monitor. Is
  that right?
  tuxview does nothing. the main window is drawn onto the desktop
  showing a blue screen, no actions possible - window frozen.
  In xterm,   where I started tuxview no errors are written (neither
  they are in /var/log/messages nor in the X-Server-log).
  Ok, I thought, tuxview won't work, so I'll try xawtv - Same result.
  But in xterm there is an error message:

  v4l: timeout (got SIGARLM), hardware/driver problems?

  Also in /var/log/messages, there is:

  modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81-[0,1,2,3]

  Concerning char-major-81 I found some information on the internet
  so I modified my modules.conf accordingly but that v4l-timeout in
  xawtv remains unchanged.
  I'm not quite shure if the alias I set there is correct -
  I've tried "bttv" and "dvb" and "videodev" but nothing changed. So I
  think there is another - maybe greater - problem in my configuration.

  Right now, I ran out of ideas figuring out, what else could be wrong.
  Can somebody put me back on track?

  Thanx in advance for every little help.

-- 
Best regards
Wolfgang                           mailto:wolfgang@wershofen.com



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