[mythtv-users] UDEV rules

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Daryl,

If you just look in /dev for the exact filename and path, you can type that
name in the field in Myth-setup

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
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Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

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Saturday, January 25, 2014, 4:14:38 PM, you wrote:

> 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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