[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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