[vdr] Re: vdr0.95: ERROR: no video device found, giving up.

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

Hans-Hermann Redenius wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When I am using vdr 0.95 with a dvb driver with new switching, I get the
> following error messages:
> 
> kernel: dvb: 2 dvb(s) found!
> vdr[10915]: VDR version 0.95 started
> vdr[10915]: loading /video/setup.conf
> vdr[10915]: loading /video/channels.conf
> vdr[10915]: loading /video/timers.conf
> vdr[10915]: loading /video/commands.conf
> vdr[10915]: ERROR: no video device found, giving up!
> 
> Using vdr 0.94 with a new dvb driver (I know switching won't work)
> 
> kernel: dvb: 2 dvb(s) found!
> vdr[11127]: VDR version 0.94 started
> vdr[11127]: loading /video/setup.conf
> vdr[11127]: loading /video/channels.conf
> vdr[11127]: loading /video/timers.conf
> vdr[11127]: loading /video/commands.conf
> vdr[11127]: probing /dev/ost/qpskfe0
> vdr[11127]: probing /dev/ost/qpskfe1
> vdr[11129]: EIT processing thread started (pid=11129) - master
> vdr[11131]: EIT processing thread started (pid=11131)
> vdr[11127]: probing /dev/ost/qpskfe2
> vdr[11127]: probing /dev/ost/qamfe2
> vdr[11127]: found 2 video devices
> 
> I get the same results when changing to and old driver, except switching
> works with vdr 0.94.
> 
> Hans-Hermann Redenius

You need to 'make' the new devices (/dev/frontend[0-3]).
There's a shell script in DVB/driver that does this (don't remember the
name right now).

Klaus
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