[mythtv-users] Can't simultaneously record two programs with 3 (or 4) available tuners v2

[Leif Pihl]

Stephen Worthington, Eric Sharkey, et alii: 

(see below)



On Oct 16, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Leif Pihl wrote:
> 
> On Oct 16, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:19:12 -0500, you wrote:
>> 
>>>> If you don’t have any then do this as root:
>>>> 
>>>> 	echo options saa7164 adapter_nr=6,7 > /etc/modprobe.d/hvr2250.conf
>>> 
>>> Did that to, BUT... 
>>> the result/response was: 
>>> -bash: /etc/modprobe.d/hvr2250.conf: Permission denied 
>> 
>> "Permission denied" normally means that you need to use sudo in front
>> of the command.  That echo command is writing to one of the system
>> control directories (/etc/modprobe.d), where normal users have read
>> persmission, but not write permission or create file permission.  So
>> using sudo is necessary to run the command as the root user, who
>> always has all permissions.
> 
> Will try this, 
> and
> re-doing the channel setup tonight.



Got the EXACT SAME results with the sudu part in front this time, i.e.: 
   sudo echo options saa7164 adapter_nr=6,7 > /etc/modprobe.d/hvr2250.conf

Also, when I got to the machine today, the graphical interface was stuck on a "blue screen of death" that I've written about before. 

I've now restarted the machine, and will re-do the channel setup.


LP





> 
>> 
>>> Despite the message, I restarted the machine anyway. 
>>> 
>>> After the restart, I did the "ls /dev/dvb" again, and came up with exactly the same results (again, in blue): 
>>>    adaptor0  adaptor1  adaptor2   
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> later,        LP
>> 
>> The colours in ls command results tell you about the permissions of a
>> file.  I never remember just what each colour means, but a different
>> colour is always a good hint that it has different permissions.  If
>> you hate the colours, they are configurable somewhere.  A google will
>> tell you how.  In the mean time, you can always add the --color=never
>> option to any ls command to turn the colours off.  I find that
>> particular darkish blue colour is quite hard to read.
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