[vdr] Re: Today's CVS driver

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

Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> 
> no-return@gmx.net(Thomas Koch)  20.09.01 20:33
> 
> >Sep 20 20:23:09 video vdr[5140]: switching to channel 5
> >Sep 20 20:23:10 video vdr[5140]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,3238): Invalid
> >argument Sep 20 20:23:10 video vdr[5145]: LIRC remote control thread
> >started (pid=5145)
> >Sep 20 20:23:10 video vdr[5140]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
> >Sep 20 20:23:10 video vdr[5140]: setting watchdog timer to 60 seconds
> >Sep 20 20:23:13 video vdr[5140]: switching to channel 6
> >Sep 20 20:23:13 video vdr[5140]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,3238): Invalid
> >argument Sep 20 20:23:14 video vdr[5140]: ERROR: timeout while tuning
> >Sep 20 20:23:14 video vdr[5140]: ERROR: channel 6 not sync'ed on DVB
> >card 1!
> >Sep 20 20:23:14 video vdr[5140]: panic level: 0
> >Sep 20 20:23:14 video vdr[5140]: retrying
> >Sep 20 20:23:14 video vdr[5140]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,3238): Invalid
> >argument Sep 20 20:23:19 video vdr[5140]: ERROR: timeout while tuning
> 
> did not work here either, but did not get these errors...
> (Hm, where did i hear that already ;-) )
> 
> The driver loads and tunes to NTV as should be.
> 
> But  vdr starts, shows one times the OSD EPG info, but
> on a black screen, that stays black.
> Pressing RC, Menu came up but board gets reset soon after

I just tried the latest CVS version, and it works just fine.
Maybe a card specific problem - I'm using a Siemens DVB-S.

> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: VDR version 0.95 started
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: loading /video/setup.conf
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: loading /video/channels.conf
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: loading /video/timers.conf
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: loading /video/commands.conf
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: probing /dev/ost/frontend0
> 3:23 msi vdr[1070]: EIT processing thread started (pid=1070) - master
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: probing /dev/ost/frontend1
> 3:23 msi vdr[1071]: EIT processing thread started (pid=1071)
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: probing /dev/ost/frontend2
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: found 2 video devices
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: setting primary DVB to 1
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: switching to channel 4
> 3:23 msi kernel: lirc_serial: Interrupt 4, port 03f8 obtained
> 3:23 msi vdr[1072]: LIRC remote control thread started (pid=1072)
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
> 3:23 msi vdr[1068]: setting watchdog timer to 60 seconds
> 3:28 msi vdr[1068]: assuming manual start of VDR
> 3:29 msi vdr[1068]: max. latency time 1 seconds
> 4:58 msi vdr[1068]: switching to channel 5
> 4:59 msi vdr[1068]: panic level: 0
> 5:09 msi last message repeated 2 times
> 5:09 msi vdr[1068]: max. latency time 11 seconds
> 5:09 msi vdr[1068]: switching to channel 6
> 5:14 msi vdr[1068]: panic level: 0
> 5:24 msi last message repeated 2 times
> 5:24 msi vdr[1068]: max. latency time 15 seconds
> 
> An other effect:
> 
> dvb-20010920
> Compiles but do not run.
> ..
> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/video/dvb-20010920/apps/tuxzap'
> make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/video/dvb-20010920/apps/tuxzap'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/video/dvb-20010920/apps'
> make: *** [dvb] Error 2
> 
> dvb-20010914
> do not compile but runs... ;-)
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/video/dvb-20010914/libdvb/src/si'
> g++ -I./include -I./src -I. -I../driver -I../ost/include -O2 -Wall -g -c
> devices.cc
> In file included from devices.hh:14,
>                  from devices.cc:1:
>                  DVB.hh:90: field `qpsk' has incomplete type
>                  DVB.hh:91: field `qam' has incomplete type
>                  make[1]: *** [devices.o] Error 1
>                  make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/video/dvb-20010914/libdvb'
>                  make: *** [dvb] Error 2

You only need to do a 'make' in the DVB/driver directory if all you want
is to use VDR. There's no need for the other tools etc.

Klaus
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