Hi all,
I'm building up a new Fedora Core 3 box on an AMD Athlon system to use as a mythtv server. I have a strong software background but I'm not much of a hardware type, and I'm trying to figure out why some things don't seem to be working as expected. In this box I have both a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 card and a pcHDTV HD-3000 card. I've got all the appropriate modules compiled and I can load them manually via modprobe. I've found documentation that says the following should be added to /etc/modprobe.conf so that the system will find the WinTV hardware automatically:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
install ivtv { /sbin/modprobe tveeprom ; /sbin/modprobe tuner ; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv }
Well I've added that to my modprobe.conf and tried rebooting but the system never loads these modules on its own. If I execute the modprobe commands manually after it's finished rebooting then they load absolutely fine. There's no hint in the syslog that it even tried to load these modules...
I guess my biggest question is how do I know what the correct alias is for each device? What exactly do the various "char-major-" entries mean in modprobe.conf? I've been having similar problems with the HD-3000 card. I really don't want to end up having to add a whole bunch of modprobes, etc. to my /etc/rc.local.
Thanks,
-Bruce
