On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:15 +0100, Steve Marshall wrote: > "vdr: dxr3abstractiondevice.c:78: cDxr3AbsDevice::cDxr3AbsDevice(): > Assertion 'm_fdVideo >= 0' failed. > Aborted." Probably the /dev/em8300_mv device node does not exist, or its file permissions prevent you from opening it. If nothing on your distro creates the em8300* device nodes automatically, see em8300.sysv.in in the em8300 driver tarball for an example how to do it manually.