bttv module refuses to load on FC2 at bootup
Peter Reed
mrdeadworry at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 21:31:35 UTC 2006
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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