Automatic module loading for DV camera support

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:31 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> The only outstanding issue I see to finally get DV (Digital Video) capture
> working right out of the box on Fedora is having the proper modules being
> loaded when a camera is connected (through firewire). There is a bit more
> detail in this bug report :
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172105
> 
> What would the solution be? Add something like this to modprobe.conf :
> 
> alias char-major-171-* video1394 (or just raw1394, which seems sufficient)
> 
> Or maybe now in a file inside modprobe.d belonging to some DV package?

Or just file a bug against module-init-tools to get the alias added to
modprobe.conf.dist

Jeremy