From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from webmail.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.151]:34579 "EHLO webmail.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753686AbZBWWtF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:49:05 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "sonofzev@iinet.net.au" To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: running multiple DVB cards successfully.. what do I need to know?? (major and minor numbers??) Reply-To: sonofzev@iinet.net.au Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:49:00 +0900 Message-Id: <37843.1235429340@iinet.net.au> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi All Some of you may have read some of my posts about an "incorrect firmware readback" message appearing in my dmesg, shortly after a tuner was engaged. I have isolated this problem, but the workaround so far has not been pretty. On a hunch I removed my Dvico Fusion HDTV lite card from the system, running now only with the Dvico Fusion Dual Express. The issue has gone, I am not getting the kdvb process hogging cpu cycles and this message has stopped. I had tried both letting the kernel (or is it udev) assign the major and minor numbers and I had tried to manually set them via modprobe.conf (formerly modules.conf, I don't know if this is a global change or specific to Gentoo).... I had the major number the same for both cards, with a separate minor number for each of the three tuners, this seems to be the same. Is this how I should be setting up for 2 cards or should I be using some other type of configuration. cheers Allan