Am Freitag, 1. April 2005 08.51 schrieb Jarod Wilson: > On Thursday 31 March 2005 17:02, Gregory J. Haase wrote: > > I think what Jarod was referring to was the fact that not every distro > > uses /etc/modprobe.conf. The actual contents should be the same, but > > the actual file that is read may be different. > > Yes, sorry, that's what I meant. > > > e.g., on my Gentoo-amd64 box, there is a generic file /etc/modules.conf > > which has the basic information in it and the top line says "Please do > > not edit this file directly" > > > > What you're supposed to do there is create a file inside of > > /etc/modules.d/ and put the contents there. > > > > So on my box I have a few files like /etc/modules.d/alsa, > > /etc/modules.d/ivtv, /etc/modules.d/nvidia, etc. > > > > The file /etc/modules.d/ivtv contains the contents from your quick > > setup. > > To make it even more interesting, Debian has a mix of stuff in > both /etc/modules.d/ and /etc/modutils/. >
Or in Suse where you have modprobe.conf, modprobe.conf.local and in /etc/init.d you could use boot.local for this purpose. This is a little bit difficult in Linux because nearly each distribution has a different approach to this problem that even the people with very good knowledge get sometimes confused by the different Distributions. See for example this Message at the End of modprobe.conf (Suse 9.1 Professional): # end of i386 part for modprobe.conf # please keep this at the end and add local modifications to modules.conf.local include /etc/modprobe.conf.local In 3 lines it changes from modprobe to modules and back to modprobe.. But with some time an a littel bit of flexibility everything can all be solved. Maybe we could start a Thread where we collect the different modprobe lines for all the ivtv supported card's (old PVR 350's, new 350's, PVR 250, PVR 150/500 - could be used to add to the Documentation of ivtv as a reference? What do you think about it? Regards Marcel Meier ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/Info/Sentarus/hamr30 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
