Hi Greg, would you consider adding these rules to your default udev rules: KERNEL="dvb[0-9].dvr*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/dvr%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="dvb[0-9].demux*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/demux%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="dvb[0-9].frontend*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/frontend%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="dvb[0-9].audio*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/audio%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="dvb[0-9].ca*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/ca%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="dvb[0-9].osd*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/osd%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="dvb[0-9].net*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/net%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="dvb[0-9].video*", NAME="dvb/adapter%n/video%n", GROUP="video" I guess DVD users would appreciate this. Thanks ! -- Prakash Punnoor formerly known as Prakash K. Cheemplavam