On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Roger wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 07:55 -0700, Nicholas Robbins wrote: > > > > > > I use it only in analog mode through mythtv. The wiki at mythtv.org points > > to this: > > > > http://sray.squidpower.com/2009/02/18/hauppauge-wintv-hvr-1950-on-linux-mythbuntu-mythtv-analog-digital-video-including-s-video-and-composite-inputs/ > > > >
> Never knew about this site either. Isn't much use except noting the fact, > "using mythtv-setup as user instead of root" will spawn errors when accessing > /dev/video0 for the HVR-1950. That note is not entirely correct, at least probably in how you quoted it. The UID one uses to access /dev/video0 depends on how the device node has been set up by udev in your distro. It has nothing to do with the driver, and it ESPECIALLY has nothing to do with the hardware sitting on the other side of the driver. Generally unless a distro does something special here, e.g. configure udev to assign group "video" to all V4L & DVB device nodes, then root is the only thing that can really do anything here. But a better approach is to assign a specific group to the node, e.g. 'video'. Then any user associated with that group can have greater access (usually full access). It's just a question of uid, gid associated with the node and whatever mode bits have been set - none of which has anything at all to do with the underlying driver or its hardware. > > I never knew this until now. How irritating this wasn't posted to the > pvrusb2 mailing list! Don't get worked up over it. The Internet is a big place. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
