[mythtv-users] mythtvsetup can't see dvb cards after kernel update

[Lawrence Rust]

On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 20:24 +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
> Hi:  I'm running 0.24.3 from ATrpms with kernel 3.3.3-1,fc16.x86_64. 
> During a brief upgrade to kernel 3.4.2-1 I had a failure in simultaneous 
> recordings and various frontend hangups.  I wondered if my dvb cards had 
> become out of order and ran mythtvsetup.  It 'could not get card info', 
> reporting FE_GET_INFO ioctl failed, /dev/dvb/adapter3/frontend0, eno no 
> such device.  dmesg | grep adapter showed all the cards had been 
> registered, and in the expected order.
> 
> I have reverted to kernel 3.3.3-1 and all seems ok again.
> 
> I suppose the mythtvsetup failure looks as if could be a permissions 
> problem.  Suggestions?  I'd like to try a later build of 0.25-fixes than 
> the one I now have on the laptop before updating this box.

This sounds like it could be this bug:
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10153

Unfortunately the devs decided not to backport the fix to 0.24. You
could try this patch:
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/10153/0071-libmythtv-Set-the-modulation-system-for-all-dvb-s2-c.2.patch

-- 
Lawrence