[mythtv-users] debian: can't install ivtv driver

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:38 PM, starcycle wrote:
>>
>> I assume you are aware that just changing the permissions will work,
>> but will not survive a reboot if you are using udev.
>>
>
> No, I was not aware of that -- thanks for the heads up! I just
> rebooted, and in fact you are right, the permissions reverted to
> root:video 660 (with a c in front? crw-rw----).
>
> so the obvious question is, how do I get it to not do that? :D And
> maybe relatedly, why can't mythtv access the card with 775 permissions
> even though I put mythtv in the video group?

You'll have to re-write your udev rules. Not sure precisely how debian  
has them set up, but take a look under /etc/udev.

A *really* dirty hack would be to just put a command to change the  
permissions to what you want in rc.local. Very inelegant, but it  
should work, as it would get executed after everything else.

The "c" just means that it is a character device.

beww