Fedora and TV Tuner Card

[Abhishek Sharma]

Any tips to lower the response time of irexec . 


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:32:52 GMT, Ron Yorston <rmy at tigress.co.uk> wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> >Am Mo, den 21.02.2005 schrieb Abhishek Sharma um 12:05:
> >
> >> How can I make my Fedora to auto load the module required to use the
> >> TV Tuner card.  module name is "saa7137 " with arguments as
> >> card=3D33
> >> and tuner=3D26
> >>=20
> >> I manually do that using ' modprobe'
> >
> >The module will be autoloaded once an application tries to use the
> >device. though you may add to /etc/modprobe.conf
> >
> >alias char-major-81 saa7137
> >options saa7137 card=3D33 tuner=3D26
> 
> Well, I'd certainly hope it would autoload the module when required,
> but that wasn't my experience this weekend when I added FC3 to one of
> my machines.  Under FC2 on the same machine I have alias and options
> lines in /etc/modprobe.conf for my bttv-based TV tuner.  When I run
> tvtime it Just Works.
> 
> In FC3 I put the same lines in modprobe.conf, but tvtime complains that
> /dev/video0 doesn't exist.  I have to 'modprobe bttv' by hand to get it
> to work.
> 
> Yes, I could put the command in rc.local, but why should I have to?
> It worked automatically under FC2, why not with FC3?
> 
> Ron
> 
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