[mythtv-users] tuner numbering

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Daryl,

Saturday, March 1, 2014, 2:11:08 PM, you wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:26:34 -0000, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hoi Roger,
>>>>
>>>> Saturday, March 1, 2014, 12:16:06 AM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Permissions can't be the problem on the simlinks, simlinks inherit
>>>> from their source. But it can be on the directories! I don't know
>>>> without research, but can you set the group of the directories on
>>>> video,... or are they already?
>>>>
>>>
>>> True. The GROUP "assigns group ownership of the device file to the video
>>> group". Yes, I would expect them to be already and I've never had to use
>>> them but, IIRC, they were discussed on the earlier thread and you never
>>> know! Desperate measures....
>>>
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>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ grep -i video /etc/group
>> video:x:44:mythtv
>>
>> "should show that mythtv & daryl are members"  does it?

> Good morning Roger and Hoi Hika, I went ahead and added the
> GROUP="video", opened the BE set up, and even though:

> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -i /dev/dvb*
> 8104 adapter0  8484 adapter3  7988 HP1250  8634 PC800i
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

> the symlinks seem to be in force, same scenario, no presentation of
> symlink name, and error message if I type it in.

> I changed the numbers to 1 and 3 for the PC800i and HP1250
> respectively in /etc/modprobe.d/dvb-options.conf and only the later
> picks up. Why are there four different numbers preceding the adapters
> and symlinks?    Daryl
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As Mark says, try ls -l /dev/dvb to check the group ownership of the
directories. Either they should be owned by the video group or have rx
permission set on world.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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