Laz wrote: > I've got one PCI DVB device and two USB DVB devices. Sometimes vdr would > only find one device, even though the others seemed to be working OK. > I've now tracked down why. > > vdr starts with /dev/dvb/adapterX/frontend0 where X = 0, increments X > until it can't access the device, and then stops looking. This is > probably the right way to do this but occasionally, I end up with the > following devices: > > /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 > /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend2 > /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend3 Do you mean: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter2/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter3/frontend0 This can happen in "normal" situations too: just unplug the USB DVB adapter1. > I have yet to work out what causes this but I'm pretty sure it has to do > with the USB driver and hotplug which somehow manages to load and unload > the USB drivers several times in succession! Unplugging the USB devices > and rebooting sorts them back to how they should be, i.e. 0-2 but it's a > pain if I don't notice and I end up with lots of timer conflicts because > only one device has been found. > > Obviously, this is a broken driver issue and vdr isn't really at fault but > is it worth allowing for a situation where a device may be 'missing' in > the sequence? Is there any simple way of determining how many devices > have been discovered, apart from looking in the log output, e.g. could > this info be added to the STAT SVDRP command or similar? > > I doubt this is a common issue and I'm not really after a fix: just > thought others might find the info useful! -- Anssi Hannula
