The card is installed and working as I can scan with the scanning utiliy provided with dvb-apps (downloaded and compiled from linuxtv CVS) Running vdr gives the following error within /var/log/messages Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: VDR version 1.2.6 started Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: loading /var/lib/vdr/sources.conf Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: loading /var/lib/vdr/diseqc.conf Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: loading /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: loading /var/lib/vdr/svdrphosts.conf Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: loading /var/lib/vdr/ca.conf Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: loading /var/lib/vdr/keymacros.conf Jan 9 00:16:23 localhost vdr[4771]: no DVB device found lsmod output blackhole:~# lsmod | grep dvb/* dvb_ttpci 92060 0 l64781 7236 1 dvb_ttpci saa7146_vv 47168 1 dvb_ttpci saa7146 17992 2 dvb_ttpci,saa7146_vv ves1820 6340 1 dvb_ttpci stv0299 10408 1 dvb_ttpci dvb_core 81544 2 dvb_ttpci,stv0299 tda8083 5892 1 dvb_ttpci stv0297 7680 1 dvb_ttpci sp8870 7372 1 dvb_ttpci firmware_class 10816 2 dvb_ttpci,sp8870 ves1x93 6564 1 dvb_ttpci ttpci_eeprom 2720 1 dvb_ttpci i2c_core 21904 12 i2c_viapro,via686a,i2c_isa,dvb_ttpci,l64781,ves1820,stv0299,tda8083,stv0297,sp88 70,ves1x93,ttpci_eeprom dmesg output blackhole:~# dmesg | grep dvb saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. dvb-ttpci: gpioirq unknown type=0 len=0 dvb-ttpci: info @ card 0: firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 80002622 dvb-ttpci: firmware @ card 0 supports CI link layer interface dvb-ttpci: adac type set to 0 @ card 0 dvb-ttpci: found av7110-0. I have the firmware file in location... blackhole:~# ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ total 240 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239956 2006-01-08 22:52 dvb-ttpci-01.fw The contents of /dev/dvb are as follows. blackhole:~# ls -lR /dev/dvb /dev/dvb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 2006-01-09 00:16 adapter0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 2006-01-09 00:16 adapter1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 2006-01-09 00:16 adapter2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 2006-01-09 00:16 adapter3 /dev/dvb/adapter0: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 1 2006-01-09 00:16 audio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 6 2006-01-09 00:16 ca0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 4 2006-01-09 00:16 demux0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 5 2006-01-09 00:16 dvr0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 3 2006-01-09 00:16 frontend0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 7 2006-01-09 00:16 net0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 8 2006-01-09 00:16 osd0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 0 2006-01-09 00:16 video0 /dev/dvb/adapter1: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 65 2006-01-09 00:16 audio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 70 2006-01-09 00:16 ca0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 68 2006-01-09 00:16 demux0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 69 2006-01-09 00:16 dvr0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 67 2006-01-09 00:16 frontend0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 71 2006-01-09 00:16 net0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 72 2006-01-09 00:16 osd0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 64 2006-01-09 00:16 video0 /dev/dvb/adapter2: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 129 2006-01-09 00:16 audio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 134 2006-01-09 00:16 ca0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 132 2006-01-09 00:16 demux0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 133 2006-01-09 00:16 dvr0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 131 2006-01-09 00:16 frontend0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 135 2006-01-09 00:16 net0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 136 2006-01-09 00:16 osd0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 128 2006-01-09 00:16 video0 /dev/dvb/adapter3: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 193 2006-01-09 00:16 audio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 198 2006-01-09 00:16 ca0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 196 2006-01-09 00:16 demux0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 197 2006-01-09 00:16 dvr0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 195 2006-01-09 00:16 frontend0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 199 2006-01-09 00:16 net0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 200 2006-01-09 00:16 osd0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 192 2006-01-09 00:16 video0 many thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060109/527dd2cb/attachment.htm