Thank you all. The "sudo su" followed by entering the "sudo password" then "echo s-video > cur_val" command does in fact allow the cur_val to be changed as was suggested.
Thanks again, Larry Below is a brief synopsis for the benefit of other beginners like myself who may happen on to this: --------------------------------------- Method to change pvrusb2 input (television, composite or s-video) by writing to "cur_val" Ref: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-USB2 (obtain root write permissions and authority by supplying sudo password for this mythbuntu system) $ sudo su [sudo] password for lj: (change to the directory where "cur_val" is located, note: system specific, yours may be different) cd /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb6/6-1/pvrusb2/sn-8504958/ctl_input (list directory containing "cur_val") [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb6/6-1/pvrusb2/sn-8504958/ctl_input#ls -al total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-10-21 12:35 . drwxr-xr-x 56 root root 0 2008-10-21 12:33 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-21 18:43 cur_val -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-21 18:43 enum_val -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-21 18:43 name -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-21 18:43 type (Check the current value, here it shows currently set to "television") [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb6/6-1/pvrusb2/sn-8504958/ctl_input# cat cur_val television (Change to the s-video input) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb6/6-1/pvrusb2/sn-8504958/ctl_input# echo s-video > cur_val (Verify the change, now shows the encoder input is set to input from the "s-video" connector) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb6/6-1/pvrusb2/sn-8504958/ctl_input# cat cur_val s-video _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
