On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 08:00 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > 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 > Yes. Though in general, when looking at kernel errors, you better of installing the kernel-devel package and looking at /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h and at /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/asm-generic/errno.h - Gilboa
