[mythtv-users] Where to specify IVTV tuner type on Knoppmyth

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 16, 2007, at 5:24 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>> I know I have to specify to IVTV what the tuner type is, I think type
>> 50 will work.
>>
>> I thought I had to simply specify the tuner type in /etc/
>> modules.conf, or perhaps /etc/modutils/aliases.
>>
>> But this is not working for some reason. I'm not that familiar with
>> how Debian loads modules, every distro seems a bit different, some
>> files are overwritten at boot it seems.
>>
>
> I'm not familiar with Debian either, but you might see if there's a
> /etc/modprobe.d directory.  On SUSE a lot of module stuff gets
> configured there.  I specify my tuner type in /etc/modprobe.d/tv.

That's where I looked first. /etc/modprobe.d/aliases says at the top  
"does not need to be modified", which is a little confusing to me,  
and "char-major-81" which to my mind should be IVTV, is "videodev",  
which seems a bit strange.

Anyway, I tried /etc/modprobe.d/aliases again and it worked. Perhaps  
I forgot to do a modules-update the first time?

Sure wish everyone would initialize stuff the same way, and that  
HogPaws would quit using whatever tuners they find in the dumpster.

Anyway, working now. Thanks.

Sorry for the noise :-)