[mythtv-users] UDEV rules

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:21:33 -0000, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/23/2014 11:18 PM, George Nassas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK I just went into setup>capture cards, and when I try to change
>>>> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 to anything with "dig1250" in it, I get
>>>> "failed to open" the only thing that opens is what presents when I
>>>> navigate through new cards. Obviously I'm missing how to or what to
>>>> change. Similarly with the other cards the symlink name returns
>>>> "failed to open" Help?   Daryl
>>>
>>>
>>> You're making the right change in the right place. Probably the myth
>>> backend is still running, it takes an exclusive lock on capture cards and
>>> that would cause such a failure. Normally when the setup program sees an
>>> active backend it offers to shut it down although that shutdown is not
>>> necessarily reliable in my experience.
>>>
>>> On the plus side it looks like the symlink is good. It's clearly pointing
>>> to a tuner.
>>>
>>> - George
>
>
> Another possibility: if you're *editing* the existing capture cards, won't
> mythtv-setup already have opened the tuner ? So it won't be able to open it
> again via your new symlink = 'failed to open'
>
> Whenever I do this sort of thing I always 'delete all' capture cards first,
> then define new ones...

Like I told Mark, after deleting all cards and selecting new card the
only options that present with the left/right arrows are /dev/whatever
or/video/whatever no symlinks show up.
>
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