[mythtv-users] Getting "modprobe ivtv-fb" to run at startup

jose rubio debian at nc.rr.com
Sun Jan 18 13:30:11 EST 2004


On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 19:36, Tobias Luetke wrote:
> Jason wrote:
> 
> This here is my modules.conf entry which causes the machine to pull in 
> everything needed when i add ivtv to autoload :
> 
> alias char-major-61     lirc_i2c
> alias char-major-81     videodev
> alias char-major-81-0   ivtv
> options ivtv ivtv_debug=1
> options tuner type=8
> options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=1
> options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
> add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c ivtv-fb
> 
> 
> By the way, i always have to run linux console in framebuffer mode 
> otherwise loading ivtv-fb overtakes fb0 and causes havok.
> Most of the time the console just freezes. But i can start x by typing 
> startx blindly.
> Whats the common workaround for that ( i don't mind it much, i like the 
> little tux at the top of the screen while booting anyways )
[snip]

It's something like 

        append="video=vc:0-0"
 
in you lilo.conf.  It's in the docs somewhere... I think the ivtv-fb.c
file talks about it.

-jose-



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