[Kwintv] No devices to select from

[eGore]

Am Sonntag, den 31.10.2004, 23:00 +0100 schrieb Dirk Ziegelmeier:
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 14:04, Adrian Dannberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had some time to playaround with my system this weekend and it
> > seems to me like this _is_ an kdetv related problem afterall.
> >
> > First thing I tried to get kdetv running is, I switched to xorg but it
> > didn't help. Next I installed kdetv-cvs, it compiled fine but still no
> > devices to choose from. Then I tried another app, tvtime. Surprisingly it
> > worked, so I tried what Chris said and downgraded to kdetv-0.8.0, which
> > solved the problem! But 0.8.3 has to many nice features I don't want to
> > miss.
> >
> > Can I provide anything useful to you, that you can track the problem?
> Can you show me the command line output of kdetv 0.8.3, or better, the latest 
> CVS snapshot? There should be some hints in there. Currently I'd guess that 
> you have installed kdetv into another dir than the previous 0.8.0, so the new 
> kdetv finds the old plugins for some reason (it looks into the wrong dir) and 
> cannot load them.
> 
> Dirk

I had a similar problem which was caused by exactly the problem you are
describing above. It happened to me when switching from 0.8.3 to cvs, because
Gentoo Linux uses a some kind of different data structure, which causes
that "make install" over an existing 0.8.3 does not overwrite the old
plugins (and this prevented kdetv from running). Removing the old
version and doing a "make uninstall && make install" got everything
running fine.
But I'm not sure if kdetv just was closing itself or if I didn't have
any sources to select from, all I remember is that it didn't work when I
wanted to watch Simpsons :D