[mythtv-users] Problems Detecting DVB Capture Cards.

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Oct 11 10:02:34 UTC 2012


On 11/10/12 10:47, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 11/10/12 10:29, Tim Phipps wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Ian Barton <lists at wilkesley.net>:
>>> I am confused too:) The error happens whichever card I try to select.
>>> I am aware of the cold boot problem. However, if I simply restore the
>>> backup database and restart the backend, without doing anything else
>>> at all Myth can tune using all three tuners. However, if I go into
>>> setup it claims it can't open any of them.
>>>
>>
>> So mythbackend can open the device files but mythtv-setup can't. That
>> sounds like a permission problem. What user/group do you have on the
>> device files and how do you start the progams?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim.
>
> Perhaps
>
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11058
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10830
>
> The giveaway seems to be 'FE_GET_INFO ioctl failed' when starting to set
> up a new tuner card in mythtvsetup,
>

An addition here;  After restoring a working DB I have been able to 
rescan from the Channels editor page in mythtvsetup, but I don't think I 
could easily add more cards or move them around.  I believe Geoff 
Newbury had a workaround.  So far I haven't needed it.

HTH

John P




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