[mythtv-users] card#0 - Permission Denied!

[Jo Shields]

mythtv at red2.braveturtle.com wrote:

>Thanks. I will try that.
>
>I am doing my best to research first and ask questions later, but there
>is a lot of confusion in the documentation I have found.
>
>For example, all the guides I have found say specifically to run
>mythtv-setup as user "mythtv"!
>
>-Sean
>
>On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:28:47 -0500, "Warren" <warren-lists at icruise.com>
>said:
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>
>>mythtv at red2.braveturtle.com wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Thank you to everyone who helped me with my "mythtv" user account
>>>problem.  By removing the user and re-adding the "mythtv" user I am now
>>>able to log in as user "mythtv".
>>>
>>>However, now I am faced with another problem.  When I run mythtv-setup
>>>as user mythtv, when I try to add my air2pc HD-5000 card I get the
>>>following:
>>>
>>>Frontend ID:  could not open card#0! Subtype: permission denied!
>>>
>>>When I run mythtv-setup as root and try to add the card, it properly
>>>recognizes the card. But I know I am not supposed to runt it as root.  
>>>
>>>So can anyone help me with this problem?  I would assume my "mythtv"
>>>user account is still not set up properly, but I am not sure what to do.
>>>
>>>Thanks again for everyone's great help.
>>>
>>>-Sean
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>>>      
>>>
>>You have 2 choices - run mythtv-setup as root or change the ownership on
>>/dev/dvb* (chown -R user.group /dev/dvb*).  I ran into the same problem,
>>but since I am running mythbackend as root, which you would always want
>>to do to get your recordings done with realtime scheduling, I ran
>>mythtv-setup as root as well.
>>
>>W
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Add your mythtv user to the group which has permissions on the device 
nodes (commonly the "video" group)