[mythtv-users] capture card not detected as mythtv user

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Sep 16 04:51:28 UTC 2011


On 09/15/2011 08:38 PM, Jonathan Larson wrote:
> I've got a Debian 6 box running mythtv 24.1 installed via the debian-multimedia repo. It has a PVR-150 installed and is running as a SBE. I have run mythtv-setup and configured the capture card, sources, connections, etc. The problem is when I run the daemon using the mythtv user created during installation, the backend complains that there are no captured cards available
...
> When I use my own username (i.e. when it's working), I see these entries:
...
> Does anyone have any ideas what else might inhibit mythbackend from detecting a capture card when started by one user vs another?

Consolekit or similar messing with ownership, such that only the user 
that logged in on the terminal can access it?

Mike


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