[mythtv-users] Can't simultaneously record two programs with 3 (or 4) available tuners v2

[Leif Pihl]

On Oct 16, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:19:12 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>>> If you don’t have any then do this as root:
>>> 
>>> 	echo options saa7164 adapter_nr=6,7 > /etc/modprobe.d/hvr2250.conf
>> 
>> Did that to, BUT... 
>> the result/response was: 
>>  -bash: /etc/modprobe.d/hvr2250.conf: Permission denied 
> 
> "Permission denied" normally means that you need to use sudo in front
> of the command.  That echo command is writing to one of the system
> control directories (/etc/modprobe.d), where normal users have read
> persmission, but not write permission or create file permission.  So
> using sudo is necessary to run the command as the root user, who
> always has all permissions.

Will try this, 
and
re-doing the channel setup tonight.




> 
>> Despite the message, I restarted the machine anyway. 
>> 
>> After the restart, I did the "ls /dev/dvb" again, and came up with exactly the same results (again, in blue): 
>>     adaptor0  adaptor1  adaptor2   
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> later,        LP
> 
> The colours in ls command results tell you about the permissions of a
> file.  I never remember just what each colour means, but a different
> colour is always a good hint that it has different permissions.  If
> you hate the colours, they are configurable somewhere.  A google will
> tell you how.  In the mean time, you can always add the --color=never
> option to any ls command to turn the colours off.  I find that
> particular darkish blue colour is quite hard to read.
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