[vdr] Help Needed with VDR configuration???

[raid517 <raid517@fairadsl.co.uk>]

Hi can anyone point me to any docs that will help me to configure VDR on 
my Debian unstable system? I installed VDR and a bunch of plugins via 
apt-get. Then being the simple sort I am I opened a command prompt and 
typed VDR.  Unfortunately after doing so I was greeted by a message 
saying : vdr: error while reading '/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf'. So I 
dumped a working channels.conf file in there from my existing Xine 
directory, checked the permisions on it and to that directory so that 
VDR had full access rights thinking everything would be straightforward 
and ran the command again, only to be confronted by the message that yet 
again vdr had encountered an 'error while reading 
'/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf''. So I did man VDR thinking I only needed 
to read a little more to figure it out. Sadly the manual gave no hints 
about how to configure VDR at all.  What is the problem and why can't it 
read this file? Any hints, tips or suggestions on how to configure VDR 
and get it up and running would be very much appreciated.

Edit:

It seems it can read the included satelite and cable channels.conf but 
it cannot read the provided DVB-T channels.conf - nor can it read my own 
DVB-T channels.conf. So the problem with it not being able to read the 
channels.conf file is restricted to the terrestrial channels.conf files 
only.

Which all in all is pretty odd.

Best regards,

GJ