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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-user-de] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:11:02
Message-Id: 200608020004.53332.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-user-de] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation by Bertram Scharpf
1 On Monday 31 July 2006 21:07, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > on my system Xawtv is installed with USE="zvbi", so that I
5 > have `scantv' enclosed. Anyway, it doesn't work:
6 >
7 > # scantv
8 > [...]
9 > vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi]
10 > open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument
11 > #
12 >
13 > I wonder how this error message could arise because of the
14 > following:
15 >
16 > # dd if=/dev/vbi bs=8 count=1 | od -x
17 > 1+0 records in
18 > 1+0 records out
19 > 8 Bytes (8 B) copied, 0.099231 seconds, 0.1 kB/s
20 > 0000000 374d 1620 341e 544a
21 > 0000010
22 > #
23 >
24 > I had a look at the source code but I found the open call
25 > parameters okay.
26 >
27 > Any clue what could be wrong there?
28 >
29 > Thanks in advance,
30
31 and what are the rights on /dev/vbi / /dev/vbi0 ?
32
33 And where does it point (I bet, it is just a symlink ;) )
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