[vls-devel] Re: dvbinput module failing

Jean-Paul Saman saman at natlab.research.philips.com
Wed Oct 23 08:33:26 CEST 2002


Question: How do you load the DVB drivers?
With make insmod or differently?

Graeme Ogilvie wrote:
> Yes, I'm running 2.4.18 of the kernel.  
> 
> I just checked on the margi driver - it's not there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Graeme
> 
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> Sent: 22 October 2002 07:42
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> Subject: [vls-devel] Re: dvbinput module failing
> 
> 
> Graeme Ogilvie wrote:
> 
>>Hi Nitrox,
>>
>>I just noticed that you checked some files in regarding dvb-t support.
>>
>>What version of dvb driver are you running?  I still haven't had any 
>>luck getting it working.  It appears to be tuning, and then still 
>>quits.
>>
> 
> which kernel are you running 2.4.18 ?
> 
> Check if you have a "margi" driver in your /lib/modules/2.4.18. It is in
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/margi (if I remember 
> correctly). This will conflict with the drivers from linuxtv.org 
> (Dvb-0.9.4) because of a naming conflict.
> 
> What actually happens is that drivers for DVB-S reception are loaded 
> from the margi directory instead of your DVB-0.9.4 driver. But because 
> the margi is a PCMCIA video camera card it is of course not detected and
> 
> bails out. Taking all other loaded DVB drivers with it.
> 
> 
>>Graeme
>>
> 
> 



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