Am Freitag, den 08.09.2006, 16:57 -0400 schrieb Michael Krufky: > James Fidell wrote: > > Unfortunately running "modprobe saa7134-dvb" appears to achieve > > absolutely nothing at all. The module loads, but gives no dmesg output > > and no /dev/dvb devices are created. Any ideas? > > This would usually happen if the driver doesnt think your card has DVB > functionality, although that sounds unlikely in your case. Maybe you'd > have better results with the sources in linuxtv.org mercurial, unless > Hartmut has any better idea... > > BTW, linuxtv.org's mercurial drivers will NOT build correctly against > the FC5 kernel, due to the fact that FC5 is currently using a 2.6.18 > kernel which identifies itself as 2.6.17. OTOH, if you're using the > atrpms package repository, you can upgrade your v4l-dvb modules by doing: > > yum install video4linux-kmdl-`uname -r` > > > I'm running FC5 fully patched with kernel 2.6.17.11, if that matters. > > Yup. > > > (The same thing happens when I load cx88-dvb for my other two cards. Or > > doesn't, rather. And if I use MAKEDEV to create the /dev/dvb structure > > manually, then running "scan" reports "no such device". It's like the > > low-level drivers can see the hardware, but somewhere something is > > failing to tie everything together inside the kernel.) > > umm... what makes you think the drivers can see the hardware? You are > using cx88-blackbird devices -- these do not have DVB functionality. > You should see cx88-dvb announce the fact that it has loaded itself, but > it will not do anything with those cards. It is a PITA! Somebody does a deal on xbay and is/feels cheated and all comes on here with a lot of noise. f* it ! Cheers, Hermann _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
