[mythtv-users] tuner numbering

[Roger Siddons]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:16:24 -0000, Roger Siddons  
<dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:43:58 -0000, Daryl McDonald  
> <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> It's a head scratcher, as well as other variations, I tried deleting
>> all cards, exiting, rebooting, going into set-up> capture cards,
>> inputting symlink names, (even though the prompt said"could not get
>> information on "/dev/dvb/PC800i" or "/dev/dvb/HP1250) and configured
>> them in input connections. When I tried to watch live TV, channel
>> numbers for the analog card were white (normal) but channel numbers
>> for the digital cards were blue (not normal) oddly enough trying to
>> watch a digital channel resulted in a black screen accompanied with
>> audio for the program selected. Pardon me for being so thick, this
>> sounds like it should be real simple, but I can't see what's wrong.
>> I've even commented out my modeprobe.d/options.conf thinking that
>> might be interfering.   Daryl
>
> How many issues are we talking about here ? I presume your digital cards  
> have worked before.
>
> Did setup allow you to *select* the symlinks, rather than typing them in  
> ?
>
> Does everything work properly when you ignore the symlinks, ie. set up  
> the cards as adapter 0 & 6 ? Do you get the "could not get information"  
> prompt for them as well ?
>
> Some pastebinned logs of the frontend, backend might make things clearer.
>
> A log of mythtv-setup might also help: Try "mythtv-setup --loglevel  
> debug -v all,nogui > my.log" then pastebin my.log (and delete it)
>

Forgot to say;
for setup log: go to Capture Cards/Add New Card and select (or type in) a  
symlink. Then cancel the dialog & exit setup. That should log enough.
for frontend/backend log: reproduce black screen/audio issue.