On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:54:32 -0500, Bruce Pennypacker
<bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
Bruce,
I have seen in a past thread that FC3 does not support modprobe.conf.
I have no idea about this. You might want to do some research on that.
