[mythtv-users] UDEV rules

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 20:24:31 UTC 2014


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt
<acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:
> On 25/01/14 03:10 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt
>> <acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 25/01/14 02:08 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And further, on a whim, I went into the BE deleted all capture cards,
>>>> then
>>>> rebooted, and then went in again and was still not presented with
>>>> symlink
>>>> names, only /dev/adapter0/frontend0, /dev/adapter1/frontend0,
>>>> /dev/video0,
>>>> /dev/video24, /dev/video36, and only by backspacing and typing can I get
>>>> /dev/video1, or /dev/video2, they won't present with left/right arrows,
>>>> but
>>>> they are recognized as "saa7134" and "Kworld pc150u" so although the
>>>> symlinks look good, maybe they didn't fully take? I don't fully
>>>> understand
>>>> the output from the grep, but my gut feeling is that since I am able to
>>>> configure the cards, without udev involved, permissions must be correct,
>>>> right? thanks
>>>
>>> IIRC, mythtv-setup only populates the default device nodes in the
>>> drop-down,
>>> eg: /dev/video? for v4l/ivtv/etc devices.  You need to select the
>>> appropriate type of device in the top drop down, then just type in the
>>> correct device node eg:
>>>
>>> /dev/videopvr150
>>>
>>> Don't forget the after you define the capture cards, you still need to
>>> define a source, then connect the appropriate card/input to the
>>> appropriate
>>> source.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> OK So are you suggesting that I ignore the "failed to open" message
>> and proceed to input connections?
>> In steppes theme I don't drop down fields I left/right arrow for
>> different values, and I up/down arrow to change fields.   Daryl
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>
> Sorry, didn't see that failed to open message. No, I'm not suggesting you
> ignore it.
>
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No problem.


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