On Monday 21 February 2005 6:29 pm, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 14:20, Jason Kraftcheck wrote: > > I use Debian rather than RH/Fedora, so perhaps this isn't possible for > > you. ÂBut why mess with all this aliasing stuff to load modules on > > demand? ÂI thought that was for seldom-used drivers to save some memory, > > etc. ÂThat obviously isn't the case for a lirc driver on a mythtv box. > > On Debian, I just add lirc_i2c to /etc/modules. ÂIt is then > > unconditionally loaded early in the boot sequence. ÂI would be surprised > > if RH/Fedora did not have an equivalent mechanism. > > Things changed quite a bit with FC3 and udev. Simply having the alias defs > in modprobe.conf (or modules.conf w/2.4 kernels) was sufficient to get the > modules loaded when needed with earlier FC/RH versions. There's been no > RH/FC "unconditionally load this" feature in the past, to the best of my > knowledge. > > I will say that I do rather like the Debian way of handling this. I have > yet to find the "right" way to do this for FC3, but I'm in the process of > hacking something into rc.sysinit that should do the job, based solely on > the contents of modprobe.conf, modeled after the way FC3 loads modules for > sound cards. And to confirm, I just checked, everything now auto-loads > perfectly on my test box with a few additions to rc.sysinit. Patch attached > for those who care to try it out.
I guess the files I sent you didn't work out. They work for me in FC3. I have those plus the lirc.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d plus a video0 device in /etc/udev/devices plus a symlink of /dev/video. Everything just loads correctly. -- Harry O.
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