Johannes Stezenbach wrote: ... > Why not just patch vdr to close the frontend fd? The driver > will then call FE_SLEEP automatically. Good idea. That could even become part of the SourceCaps patch by simply closing the frontend fd when the list of sources for a certain card is empty. Since Klaus mentioned long ago that he will incorporate the SourceCaps feature into standard VDR, no patching at all would be required this way. Carsten.