[vdr] Re: Changed TT from 2.1 to 1.6, now TV stays black

[Sebastian Kemper <Sebastian.Kemper@web.de>]

Sebastian Kemper wrote:
> Hello peoples,
>
> I got some problems here.
>
> I have bought a TT 1.6 after I sold my Nexus (coz of the missing 
> J2-Block). When the TT 1.6 arrived I put her in the pci slot and 
> recompiled the driver wit "make". Then I started VDR via "runvdr" and it 
> worked out of the box.
>
> Well, either it was that I had too much spare time or like to play 
> around or whatever, I felt the urge to install a fresh Linux for the new 
> card. So I formatted everything and installed Slackware 9.0 as always. 
> Well, the main purpose of this was to get rid of all the X and Gnome 
> stuff properly. After I was finished with the installation, I compiled 
> the dvb driver (2003/10/05). Everything worked fine - _no_ errors. When 
> compiling was finished, I saw the "Convergence" line on the TV.
> Then I compiled VDR 1.1.32 and again no single error. I followed the 
> instructions in the Sandman manual like I ever do.
>
> But when I start VDR for the first time there is nothing. The screen 
> stays black. Not the usual kbd questions.
>
> I tried some things but they didn't work out. I even went so far and 
> installed Windows. The card runs on Windows. Then I put back Slack again 
> _with_ X and Gnome (coz I thought maybe VDR misses the fonts - sounds 
> funny when I think about it now). Well, I don't know where to start to 
> look for to fix it.
>
> Has anybody an idea or ever experieced this kind of behaviour with TT 
> 1.6 cards (btw it's from usa-x).
>
> Hope to hear from you soon coz I want to watch TV :)
>
> cu
>
> Sebastian
To Juri:

Here's the logs from tail -f /var/log/messages with "runvdr":

May 20 14:23:50 vdr kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
May 20 14:23:50 vdr kernel: saa7146_core.o: adjusting pci latency to 64
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: VDR version 1.1.32 started
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: loading /video/sources.conf
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: loading /video/diseqc.conf
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: loading /video/channels.conf
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: loading /video/svdrphosts.conf
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: loading /video/ca.conf
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: loading /video/keymacros.conf
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: found 1 video device
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: setting primary device to 1
May 20 14:23:54 vdr vdr[276]: SVDRP listening on port 2001

Here's the rest from tty:
root@vdr:/usr/local/src/VDR# ./runvdr
/lib/modules/2.4.20/build/scripts/pathdown.sh: line 4: TOPDIR: parameter 
null or not set
DIR=`pwd`; (cd /lib/modules/2.4.20/build; make SUBDIRS=$DIR modules)
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20'
make -C  /usr/local/src/DVB/driver CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ 
-I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs 
-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe 
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon  -DMODULE" MAKING_MODULES=1 
modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver'
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o dvb-core.o dmxdev.o dvb_demux.o dvb_net.o dvb_i2c.o 
dvb_filter.o dvb_frontend.o dvbdev.o compat.o dvb_ksyms.o
make -C av7110 modules
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/av7110'
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o dvb-ttpci.o saa7146_core.o saa7146_v4l.o av7110.o 
av7110_ir.o
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/av7110'
make -C frontends modules
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/frontends'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `modules'.
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/frontends'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20'

sync
(                                               \
insmod videodev;                                \
                                \
insmod dvb-core.o dvb_shutdown_timeout=0;       \
make -C frontends insmod;                       \
 make -C av7110 insmod; \
)
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.o
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/frontends'
insmod alps_bsrv2.o;   insmod alps_tdmb7.o;   insmod alps_tdlb7.o; 
insmod grundig_29504-401.o;   insmod grundig_29504-491.o;   insmod 
stv0299.o;   insmod ves1820.o;
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/frontends'
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/av7110'
insmod input; \
insmod evdev; \
insmod dvb-ttpci.o;
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/input/input.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/input/evdev.o
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/src/linux-dvb.2003-05-10/driver/av7110'
sync

Seems all right to me, what do you think.





To Ralf:

I started is as root as you see above. That's not the problem. mmh...

Thanks

Sebastian






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