VDR package feedback

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Thomas Schmidt may or may not have written...

> * Andrew Stevens schrieb am 06.02.05, um 19:40 Uhr:
[snip]
> > The situation is a real pain ... I've never figured out how to get the right
> > set of front-ends loaded automatically. I always ended up simply grabbing the
> > list from 'insmod' target in the DVB driver sources.

> > Maybe I've missed something?

> You should just configure the module-init-tools, in my setup TechnoTrend FF
> Rev. 1.5) stv0299 is the right frontend-module and i created the file
> /etc/modprobe.d/dvb with the following content:

> alias dvb dvb-ttpci
> install dvb-ttpci /sbin/modprobe stv0299; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dvb-ttpci

> This means that the module stv0299 is loaded together with dvb-ttpci.

Note that, with the in-kernel drivers in 2.6.10, hotplug should load the
correct front-end module. (It does so here: budget-ci and tda1004x, though
stv0299 also ends up being loaded.)

[snip]
> > 3.	A hint for 2.6.x DVB newbies.

>> You absolutely need hotplugging active and you need to install the
>> firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.  Details in <kernel
>> sources>/Documentation/dvb/firmware.txt

... and, in my case, downloading a 12MB archive for a 30K file. On a 56K
dial-up connection. :-\

(I also needed to patch the drivers: unpatched, tuning is very slow in
2.6.10.)

>> This one had me tearing my hair for hours as the error message from the
>> driver is not in the least useful and the firmware hotplug agent does not
>> seem to log useful information into the syslog.  Sigh...

> Ok, you are right in this point, it is a little bit difficult to find this
> out for newbies, [...]

Not to mention nigh-on impossible for them to discover ;-)

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