Freitag, 25. Januar 2002 at 00:28 Wolfgang Wershofen wrote:
> Hi everybody, > I am quite a newbie to LINUX-DVB so don't punish me for asking stupid > or long answered questions. > I am participating in a pilot project for dsl via satellite in > Germany. Along with that I purchased a "Technotrend budget PCI" > DVB-card and everything is working quit well under Windows, although > I'm getting more and more to the point that this card wasn't the best > choice (speaking of tv-performance). > Since M$-Win is not my favorite OS, I'd like to get both networking > and digital tv running under Linux. At this point I have gone through > one week of nightshifts with gathering informations, downloading > drivers, software, howto's, compiling, installing, reconfiguring and > testing and I seem to got stuck! Neither networking nor digital tv is > working so I urgently need some help. Maybe I can't see the forest > for the trees. > Ok, so how is my situation now: > Hardware: > Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz, 512 MB SDRAM, K7S5A Mainboard, ATI Radeon > ViVo 64MB DDR, TT budget PCI DVB-card > Software: > SuSE Linux 7.3, XFree 4.1.0, Kernel 2.4.10-4GB > Let's at first leave the networking aspect aside, because I have not > yet been into this too far. I concentrated on digital tv in the last > few days because I thought it was easier to set up. > I downloaded the tarball siemens_dvb_0.9-lastest from > linuxtv.org and compiled it according to the respective README-files. > I had to install some more features from the distribution but finally > I succeeded in compiling the driver, the libs and the tuxzap software. > As far as /var/log/messages tells the whole story, "make insmod" of > the drivers works fine, since no warnings or errors are displayed > there. > Feeling lucky about that, I started X. First I tried tuxzap, which > seemed to work. Ok, channel-switching without picture is a dull test, > so I started tuxview, which I understood as being my tv-monitor. Is > that right? > tuxview does nothing. the main window is drawn onto the desktop > showing a blue screen, no actions possible - window frozen. > In xterm, where I started tuxview no errors are written (neither > they are in /var/log/messages nor in the X-Server-log). > Ok, I thought, tuxview won't work, so I'll try xawtv - Same result. > But in xterm there is an error message: > v4l: timeout (got SIGARLM), hardware/driver problems? > Also in /var/log/messages, there is: > modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81-[0,1,2,3] > Concerning char-major-81 I found some information on the internet > so I modified my modules.conf accordingly but that v4l-timeout in > xawtv remains unchanged. > I'm not quite shure if the alias I set there is correct - > I've tried "bttv" and "dvb" and "videodev" but nothing changed. So I > think there is another - maybe greater - problem in my configuration. > Right now, I ran out of ideas figuring out, what else could be wrong. > Can somebody put me back on track? > Thanx in advance for every little help. Do me a favor and forget my mail for the moment. Everything I asked in that has been discussed during this very month over and over. I am able to read, so I'll come back with more detailed questions if there are any. -- Best regards Wolfgang Wershofen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
