Nigel Henry wrote: > I'm still struggling with this problem on FC2. > > The first OS I tried the Hauppauge Win TV Express card out on was FC2. I had > TV images, but no sound. Next I installed the drivers, and viewer on Win XP, > just to check out that sound and vision were working, and yes they were. Next > I tried another FC2 instance, and images were ok using xawdwcode, and > strangely after a while I got sound on some channels. > > Then I booted up Kubuntu, and had vision, and sound (only on some channels), > but after searching through docs found an option for setting automuting of > sound to "0" . Apparently sound is muted as default for channels with weak > sound signals. This fixed the sound for all channels. I then booted up FC3, > and went through the same setting of options in /etc/modprobe.conf, and had > sound and vision on all channels. > > This is were it gets weird. I boot up FC2, and bttv is no longer loaded, > nothing in /sbin/lsmod for it. /sbin/lspci -v shows the card in 2 parts, the > audio, and the video part, but strangely the IRQ's have changed. When I first > installed the card, both audio, and video parts of the card were showing as > irq10. Admittadly I have been messing with this for a while, and had > unplugged the machine from the wall skt, as had been suggested in the case of > some problems. Now I've got the cards audio, and video parts on FC2 showing > as irq9 for some reason. I can still load bttv manually using modprobe, but > it won't autoload when booting up. > > 2 Questions: > > 1: Can I change the irq's that the card is using without messing with the > BIOS, as I have about 14 distros that run on this machine, and don't want to > change BIOS settings? > > 2: Where do I put modules that I want to be loaded at bootup? On Debian based > disros I can put the modules in /etc/modules. With Kubuntu, and on Debian > Sarge (yesterday), adding "bttv tuner=38 automute=0, and tda9887 port2=0 > pal=I" resulted in the modules being loaded at bootup, and being able to > watch and hear TV. > > Is there somewhere in FC that I can do something similar, to get modules that > arn't being autodetected at bootup? > > I did try a 3rd instance of FC2 that I've got, that hasn't been booted up > since the TV card was installed. Booting this Kudzu asks about the the old > winmodem that I removed to make space for the TV card, and I remove the > config for it, then Kudzu asks about the TV card, so I let it configure it, > but the bttv module isn't loaded. /etc/modprobe.conf shows a new line: > alias char-major-81 bttv , but that's as far as it goes. > > I'm getting desperate here, and have already taken a break for a few days, as > it was doing my head in. A pointer or 2 would be helpfull. > > Nigel. > This may help. I cannot remember how I had this setup under FC2 I am using FC5 now and it is different. Good Luck http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/
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