On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 13:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 23:05 -0500, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I am getting the following line in dmesg: > > > > "bt878: probe of 0000.02:0d.1 failed with error -22" > > > > I am trying to get my ATI TV Wonder VE TV tuner card to work with a > > newly installed ATI Radeon 9600 video card. Lots of problems; the main > > one beeing that TV window intermittently but frequently gives a 'no > > signal' warning. > > > > What is error -22? Where can I find a list of error messages that might > > appear in my log(s)? > > > > I am using the bttv driver, tvtimes and tuner=2 option. I right now I > > am trying *all* tuner options, but so far no hint of any luck. > > > > > > -- > > Regards Bill > > > > Kernel modules return negative error codes. > Error -22 is -EINVAL. or "Invalid argument". > Mostly likely something is broken within the bttv driver. > I'd suggest you file a bug report in the bugzilla. > > - Gilboa > Thanks, I had no idea that kernel modules would return negative error codes. So, is it permissible to use the header files /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h and /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h to determine the error code by just changing the sign of the return value in this case? Sean
