Fixed it. I had (unintentionally) installed the 2.6.13 header files, so that kaffeine could use the frontend.h file that was in this package. After installing the headers and compiling kaffeine -- voilà: The "Digital TV" menu was shown.
I will left the rest of the post in case someone runs into the same errors.

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Hi all,

I'm trying to get a DVB-T device installed and am going crazy with kaffeine not displaying the "Digital TV" menu entry. I have it working in another install, but this other install has some things broken, so I can't start it all the time to do my work. I can start it and check things/configuration, but at the moment I'm totally stuck with getting my DVB stick working the second time.
I hope someone can help me getting this to work. I will try to give some useful information about my setup. Feel free to ask what you might need to hunt the error(s) down.

- Slackware 10.2 full install with the actual patches (date about 20 July) applied

- DVB device: Yakumo Quick Stick DVB-T, recognized as dvb_usb_dtt200u

- copied the firmware of my device (linuxtv.org) to /lib/firmware

- kernel: upgraded to 2.6.13.5 (installed with video4linux and all dvb-t devices all as module)

- activated udev and made it create a /dev/dvb/adapter0/ directory that holds demux0, dvr0, frontend0 and net0

- the last four are owned by the group video and have rights crw-rw----

- the user who shall view tv is member of the "video" group

- the dvb-stick's light is on after booting

- the following modules get loaded when I boot up: dvb_usb_dtt200u [used by: none], dvb_usb [dvb_usb_dtt200u], dvb_core [dvb_usb], firmware_class [dvb_usb], dvb_pll [dvb_usb].
They seem to be exactly the same compared to the install where dvb is properly working.
There is another module loaded: i2c_core [used by: dvb_usb,dvb_pll,i2c_viapro]. Nothing else of the lsmod output seems to be related to dvb stuff

- installed the v4l-dvb package from linuxtv.org
(note: I have still the 2.4.31 kernel headers installed, but that worked with the other install, too. linuxtv.org contrarily suggests for debian users to get the headers for the running kernel)

- installed the dvb-utils from linuxtv.org

- installed complete vlc as well, but I think that hasn't anything to do with kaffeine not working. this lead me to having libdvbpsi installed additionally

- xine-libs (and xine-ui) are installed

- build kaffeine from source. There seem to be no real showstoppers during configuring and making the source. ./configure says that kaffeine will be build with DVB support, but some lines above it says that linux/dvb/frontend.h is not usable, but there is a file
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dvb/frontend.h -- how critical can this be, is it related to the 2.4.x header files???

- when I start kaffeine it gives no errors, but in the output there are also no occurences of "dvb", it just acts as if there was no such device

- deleting the kaffeine config files doesn't do anything


Any ideas?????