[mythtv-users] Gentoo and ivtv - HELP!!!

Curtis Wood curtis at penguinbrat.com
Mon Dec 15 17:22:24 EST 2003


Doh... lol - didnt even know about that... sorry 'bout that ;-)

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:01, bdillahu at peachbush.com wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:46:08AM -0600, Curtis Wood wrote:
> >    Its not really that hard to set up - follow the instsructions in the
> > documentation for MythTV, under the FAQS on ivtv.sf.net there is a spot
> > for configuring the modules and which ones you need and in which
> > order... As a note though - there is a configuration to add to your
> > /etc/modules.conf in the faq that is very usefull - the bad part is that
> > GenToo rewrites that file from scratch on everyboot. You will need to
> > edit /sbin/modules-update and add the following lines to it; instead....
> > 
> > echo >> $CFGFILE
> > echo "alias char-major-81 videodev" >> $CFGFILE
> > echo "alias char-major-81-0 ivtv" >> $CFGFILE
> > echo "options ivtv ivtv_debug=1" >> $CFGFILE
> > echo "options tuner type=2" >> $CFGFILE
> > echo "options msp3400 once=1 simple=1" >> $CFGFILE
> > echo "add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner" >> $CFGFILE
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Not an expert, but I think the more "Gentoo" way would be to create a file
> in /etc/modules.d named ivtv and include those lines... the files in
> /etc/modules.d get read in as the source for /etc/modules.conf, as I understand
> it, so the lines would show up "in the right place".
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Bruce
> 
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