<p>The user you are running the mythtv under. It doesnt have to be mythtv.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 14, 2012 10:25 PM, "Batshua bat Yehonatan" <<a href="mailto:batshua@gmail.com">batshua@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><font><font face="georgia,serif">I don't think I *have* a mythtv user. At least, I don't see one in my Users Settings. Do I need to create a custom user named mythtv?<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Igor Cicimov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:icicimov@gmail.com" target="_blank">icicimov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Is the mythtv user in the video group? If not add him.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 14, 2012 8:29 PM, "Batshua bat Yehonatan" <<a href="mailto:batshua@gmail.com" target="_blank">batshua@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><font><font face="georgia,serif">Just to confirm I did this right, this is what lspci gives me:</font></font><div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><div>
03:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23887/8 PCIe Broadcast Audio and Video Decoder with 3D Comb (rev 04)</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device 2259</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Region 0: Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Capabilities: <access denied></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Kernel driver in use: cx23885</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Kernel modules: cx23885</div>
</font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Batshua bat Yehonatan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:batshua@gmail.com" target="_blank">batshua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><font><font face="georgia,serif">Since then I downloaded and installed V4L and it now shows up in lspci.</font></font><div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif">Of course, NOW I can't find channels … (dvbscan is saying "</font></font><font face="georgia, serif">Failed to open frontend</font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">").</span></div>
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<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Igor Cicimov wrote:<br>
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Your card is definitely not recognized by the kernel. Looks like lots of people have problems with this card especially with the newer versions that are actually 1255 not 1250. read this:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mythtvtalk.com/installation-issue-wintv-hvr-1250-a-13951/" target="_blank">http://www.mythtvtalk.com/<u></u>installation-issue-wintv-hvr-<u></u>1250-a-13951/</a><br>
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That is for a different problem - it is *NOT* relevant to the OPs problem.<br>
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