[mythtv-users] tuner numbering

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 21:45:34 UTC 2014


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Saturday, March 1, 2014, 10:04:18 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hoi Daryl,
>>>
>>> Saturday, March 1, 2014, 2:11:08 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:26:34 -0000, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hoi Roger,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Saturday, March 1, 2014, 12:16:06 AM, you wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Permissions can't be the problem on the simlinks, simlinks inherit
>>>>>>> from their source. But it can be on the directories! I don't know
>>>>>>> without research, but can you set the group of the directories on
>>>>>>> video,... or are they already?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> True. The GROUP "assigns group ownership of the device file to the video
>>>>>> group". Yes, I would expect them to be already and I've never had to use
>>>>>> them but, IIRC, they were discussed on the earlier thread and you never
>>>>>> know! Desperate measures....
>>>>>>
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>>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ grep -i video /etc/group
>>>>> video:x:44:mythtv
>>>>>
>>>>> "should show that mythtv & daryl are members"  does it?
>>>
>>>> Good morning Roger and Hoi Hika, I went ahead and added the
>>>> GROUP="video", opened the BE set up, and even though:
>>>
>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -i /dev/dvb*
>>>> 8104 adapter0  8484 adapter3  7988 HP1250  8634 PC800i
>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>>>
>>>> the symlinks seem to be in force, same scenario, no presentation of
>>>> symlink name, and error message if I type it in.
>>>
>>>> I changed the numbers to 1 and 3 for the PC800i and HP1250
>>>> respectively in /etc/modprobe.d/dvb-options.conf and only the later
>>>> picks up. Why are there four different numbers preceding the adapters
>>>> and symlinks?    Daryl
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>>> As Mark says, try ls -l /dev/dvb to check the group ownership of the
>>> directories. Either they should be owned by the video group or have rx
>>> permission set on world.
>>>
>>> Tot mails,
>>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>
>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>
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>
>> Thanks Gentlemen, I'm thinking this does show what we were looking for:
>
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /dev/dvb
>> total 0
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 adapter0
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 adapter3
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 HP1250
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 PC800i
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$    Daryl
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>
> Seems OK. I then have one thought left. rename the directories to
> adapterHP1250 and adapterPC800i. It is theoretically possible that
> mythtv looks for names starting with adapter.
> If that doesn't work, I'm out of thoughts for now.
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
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Hoi Hika, Do you mean put "adapter" in front of the current symlink names?


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