Thank you for the answer, Darren.
Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Lucian Muresan may or may not have written...
tony wrote:
I watched some German TV a few days ago while playing with config stuff. I can no longer get a lock on anything at 19.2E. I guess that it is just me but still... Can't understand what might have gone wrong
do you also get a message "Channel unavailable" or something on the OSD? I also cannot watch _any_ channel since I installed a fresh udev-enabled Gentoo with a 2.6.10 kernel. I did setup udev rules and permissions and have a script which creates the devices in /dev/dvb/adapter0,
You don't need that script any more. The in-kernel drivers have basic sysfs support, ehough for udev to be able to handle the node creation.
I meant the script /etc/udev/dvb.sh:
#!/bin/sh -e echo $1 | sed -e 's#^dvb([0-9]).([^0-9]*)([0-9])#dvb/adapter\1/\2\3#' exit 0
I took it away like you suggested, the devices are created the same, but the ownerships aren't the same anymmore, they do no longer belong to the group "video", although I left the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/51-dvb.permissions which is responsible for this, in place...
and am able to generate a channels.conf with dvbscan from the dvb-apps suite. But VDR won't work, I tried 1.3.18, 1.3.20, 1.3.21....
Are you using the in-kernel drivers? If so, check that the attached patch has been applied to the kernel source. I found it on (IIRC) linux-dvb after noticing that tuning was *very* slow.
Yes, I'm using the in-kernel drivers from 2.6.10. Thank you for this patch, but as much as I hoped that it would solve the problem (what you where saying about it sounded reasonable), the behaviour is unfortunately exactly the same, VDR hangs with "device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver" on the very first FTA channel it tries to tune on startup, and then I can only shoot him from anothe console. Its really weird, see my other post today http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2005-February/000171.html
As I understand you're using udev, can you give me some other advice on what else to try/check?
Regards, Lucian