/dev/dvb
Deleting /dev/dvb isn’t such a good idea when you want to use you’re TV card. I was mean to delete /dev/dvd but as I was tired I mispelt it and when it said its a folder thought nothing of it and stuck -r on the end of it.
When it came to recording something funnily enough if failed to find the bits of my TV card needed. Once I have realised the problem (after some mild panic thinking why the hell had both my TV cards given up at the same time) I clocked the fact I’d probably removed the wrong thing.
The fix: Re-created /dev/dvb and restart – bingo TV cards are backup and running. As long as I don’t do anything daft hopefully I get a week out of the system without something going wrong (I replaced a problematic TV card on Thursday)
November 5, 2005
Posted in: Software
