[mythtv-users] 0.20 fails to set/change channels with ivtv and pvr250

[William Munson]

Kai Militzer wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> since upgrading to 0.20 mythtv fails to set and/or change the channels. 
> It always stays at the last working/tuned channel. Rolling back to 0.19 
> makes it work again. I use ivtv 0.4.6 with a PVR250 card. Do I need to 
> upgrade to a newer ivtv version?
>
> In my log (with the 0.20 version) I see messages like that:
>
> 2006-09-15 18:42:49.429 Channel(/dev/video): InitPictureAttribute(       
> hue):
>                         [ -128,  127] dflt(    0, 0.50, 128)
> 2006-09-15 18:42:49.430 Channel(/dev/video)::TuneTo(E5): 
> curList[6].freq(175250)2006-09-15 18:42:49.431 
> Channel(/dev/video)::Tune(175250000, , analog)
> 2006-09-15 18:42:49.432 Channel(/dev/video)::SwitchToInput(in 2, '')
> 2006-09-15 18:42:49.433 Channel(/dev/video): SetInputAndFormat() failed
> 2006-09-15 18:42:49.434 TVRec(1) Error: Setting start channel '12' failed,
>                         and backup '1' failed as well.
>
> Any ideas what went wrong?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>   
Sounds like a permissions issue. What user are you running the backend 
and lircd under? If not both 'root'  you may need to set some 
permissions for the video devices.