Support TV - Proposal for F9 - enhanced DVB capabilities
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 26 18:07:46 UTC 2007
David Timms (dtimms at iinet.net.au) said:
> 1. auto detect / load of drivers:
> I would be great if the bootup process would detect that the user has a dvb
> tuner card and load the driver(s) without intervention {even once}.
>
> Currently I can # modprobe dvb_bt8xx to get the kernel driver loaded.
> This can be manually inserted into /etc/modprobe.conf , but with the
> hal/udev packages, I assume it is possible for the detection of the card on
> the pci bus during bootup to be the trigger to cause the module to be
> loaded.
Assuming the driver is correctly written, it should happen automatically.
Failure to automatically load for any PCI/USB device is a driver bug.
Bill
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