[mythtv-users] reinitialize TV cards without rebooting?

[carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi]

Hey,

I'm not 100% sure about this, but at least if you have DVB cards you should be 
able to re-init the cards by restarting the dvb sub-system. In openSUSE (10.3) 
this is done by calling the rcdvb script (/usr/sbin/rcdvb in 10.3 at least) as 
root:

rcdvb restart
(might be that you need to use "rcdvb reload", I don't know since I've never 
had to use this script)

It might be a good idea to stop the backend before doing this and then put it 
back up after the DVB system has been restarted. This to prevent mythtv from 
flipping out when the cards disappear. Mind you, it might be that myth handles 
this as well in some nice way, but better safe than sorry :)


-Calle


--marc at marcchamberlin.com Wrote:--
Lähettäjä: marc at marcchamberlin.com
Päivämäärä: 29.9.2008 7:33
Vastaanottaja: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Aihe: [mythtv-users] reinitialize TV cards without rebooting?

Hello -  I am running a Myth TV system with 2 TV cards, an Hauppauge PVR 
350 and an ATI TV-Wonder. Often, when I boot up my system only one of 
the two cards seems to get initialized right so that Myth TV recognizes 
it. (Most of the time both cards are recognized) I am wondering, is 
there any easy way to reinitialize the card that failed, without having 
to reboot the system? It is rather annoying sometimes to have to wait 
through 1 or 2 or 3 reboot cycles in order to get the card to come back...

Am running this on a SuSE 11.0 system.  I have tried  restarting the 
backend but that did not work....

    Marc...


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