Hi, I'm trying to run my Siemens DVB-c card under debian/testing, kernel 2.6.5 using vdr + kvdr to watch TV on my monitor. I do get an image, so driver and hotplugged firmware basically work, but from vdr I get the message "ERROR: illegal OSD device handle (-1)!", and indeed there is no vdr display on-screen. The relevant device directory (devfs-created) also has a missing OSD entry:
$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 1 1970-01-01 01:00 audio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 6 1970-01-01 01:00 ca0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 4 1970-01-01 01:00 demux0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 5 1970-01-01 01:00 dvr0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 3 1970-01-01 01:00 frontend0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 7 1970-01-01 01:00 net0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 0 1970-01-01 01:00 video0 Could someone give me a hint how to get this OSD device? I thought a module might be missing, but I read that dvb-ttpci and ves1820 should be enough, and these I have: $ lsmod|grep dvb dvb_ttpci 76300 4 dvb_core 63188 29 ves1820,dvb_ttpci saa7146_vv 50624 2 dvb_ttpci saa7146 19044 2 dvb_ttpci,saa7146_vv firmware_class 10240 1 dvb_ttpci crc32 4352 4 8139too,8139cp,dvb_ttpci,dvb_core ttpci_eeprom 2880 1 dvb_ttpci I had this hardware setup working under kernel 2.4, so it must be a software problem. The syslog portion of driver load time is May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e093f000 (revision 1, irq 11) (0x110a,0x0000). May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (Siemens cable card PCI rev1.5). May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: Siemens cable card PCI rev1.5 adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:00:9c:96 May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: DVB: AV7111(0) - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 8000261b May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: DVB: AV7111(0) - firmware supports CI link layer interface May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: av7110(0): DVB-C analog module detected, initializing MSP3400 May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: av7110(0): MSP3400 version 0x0303 0x0008 May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: videodev: "av7110" has no release callback. Please fix your driver for proper sysfs support, see http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/ May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device video0 [v4l2] May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: videodev: "av7110" has no release callback. Please fix your driver for proper sysfs support, see http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/ May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device vbi0 [v4l2] May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: av7110: found av7110-0. May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: DVB: VES1820(0): setup for tuner spXXXX May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: DVB: VES1820(0): pwm=0x52 May 12 19:41:49 aimee kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (VES1820 based DVB-C frontend)... and of VDR start time: May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: VDR version 1.2.6 started May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/setup.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/sources.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/diseqc.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/channels.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/timers.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/ca.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/remote.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: loading /etc/vdr/keymacros.conf May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 May 12 19:41:52 aimee vdr[1654]: EIT processing thread started (pid=1654) - master May 12 19:41:52 aimee xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable) May 12 19:41:52 aimee xfs-xtt: Warning: font renderer for ".TTF" already registered at priority 10 May 12 19:41:52 aimee xfs-xtt: Warning: font renderer for ".TTC" already registered at priority 10 May 12 19:41:52 aimee xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable) May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: tuner thread started on device 1 (pid=1654) May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: found 1 video device May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: setting primary device to 1 May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: SVDRP listening on port 2001 May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: switching to channel 4 May 12 19:41:53 aimee xfs-xtt: ignoring font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID (unreadable) May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: reading EPG data from /data/video/vdr/epg.data May 12 19:41:53 aimee xfs-xtt: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled (unreadable) May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: setting watchdog timer to 30 seconds May 12 19:41:53 aimee vdr[1654]: ERROR: illegal OSD device handle (-1)! My PCI listing: $ lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) Many thanks in advance Marcus -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
