I have Mandrake 10 Official running on my computer. Beforeit I used Mandrake 10 CE. I also have a Pinnacle Studio PCTV Rave TV card.

With CE release, everything was ok and the TV Card was setup at boot time. With the official release, every time I boot the computer, bttv dissapears and I have to go to the Control Center to set up the tv-card. Then it works but when I boot up again it doesn't.

Until now I found out that if I run Modprobe bttv as Root, the The TV works again.

So, How can I add bttv to be started every time the computer boots up? How should I do it? What are the init files in linux?

I am practically new to linux so any very detailed help will be very welcome.

Thanks in advance,
German

I found this reply on a other forum:
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The bellow modules will need to be added to your modprobe.preload file. Just put the first list in this file. The second listing is what was different and required for your tv card. Mine is a little different, but this should work.


tuner
tvaudio
bttv
video-buf
i2c-algo-bit
v4l2-common
btcx-risc
videodev


tuner 18156 0
tvaudio 22604 0
bttv 152652 0
video-buf 21060 1 bttv
i2c-algo-bit 9832 1 bttv
v4l2-common 6176 1 bttv
btcx-risc 4840 1 bttv
videodev 9696 1 bttv

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Works with my card. You can find the modprobe.preload file in your /etc folder at root.

Korrel, you are great!!!
I added the line bttv to my modprobe.preload and now it is working.

Well, what else can I say Thanks, thanks and thanks. :-)