[mythtv-users] RANT: MythTV has a *horrible* end userexperience.

[Matthew McClement]

jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
>> On 02/25/2008 09:04 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 02/25/2008 10:40 AM, jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> There doesn't seem to be the option of deleting a single tuner card.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> D (Yes.  I really meant to type only a single character.  That's the key
>>> you press to delete a single capture card.)
>>>
>>>
>>>> I removed one because the driver was causing kernel panics,
>>>>
>>> You mean you physically removed the card from the system...
> 
>     I removed the driver, not the card. I didn't want to generate
> a "maintenance outtage". My backend is now a production system at
> my house. '-)

Alternatively, you could just chmod the dvb driver tree out if you don't 
want to bother starting up mythtv-setup.

chmod -R 000 /dev/dvb/adapter?

And a restart of mythbackend will result in the adapter disappearing. 
This does assume that myth is running as a non-root user, I have no idea 
how it'll behave as root. Restoring the permissions and a restart and 
the tuner will be back, without have to re-setup any associations for it.

Admittedly, this isn't very user friendly but then if you're rmmod'ing 
kernel modules you've pretty much gone way beyond what any normal user 
would be doing.

However, I consider this behaviour somewhat more acceptable as it allows 
for having transient tuners on a system(USB sticks, mobile backend, etc).

Matt