[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup is looping

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Jan 9, 2004, at 18:41, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:

>> On Friday 09 January 2004 13:01, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
>>> I have installed mythtv on Debian 2.4.22 with PVR-350, but I cannot
> make
>>> it work.
>> [snip]
>>> Now, when I
>>> run mythtv-setup, I have the following error messages:
>>>
>>> QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: /dev/v4l
>>> QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: /dev/v4l
>>> QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: /dev/sound
>>>
>>> What do they mean?
>>
>> Um, they mean exactly what they say. Check the permissions on those
>> directories, and I'm assuming you'll find that the user you're running
>> mythtv-setup as does not have permission to read them. (Also check 
>> that those
>> directories even exist).
>
> They actually do not exist. Which driver does create them?  What I 
> missed
> in the installation? I applied recommended patches for v4l2 and enabled
> v4l in the kernel.

I'm not sure exactly what creates them. They've always just been there 
on my systems (mostly Red Hat), created at install time...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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