How stop it from loading your own choice of modules?

lugoteehalt · 01-05-2010, 09:27 PM

Got very odd tv problem so trying to get rid of all kernel modules that I have asked it to load myself.

So:

Code:

# rm /etc/modules

But it still loads the saa7143 modules I told it to load using 'modconf':

Code:

[    8.556446] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 17de:7253, board: Philips Tiger reference design [card=81,insmod option]

- that's what I told it to do using modconf, even the card=81.

So I commented out all entries in /etc/modules.old but it still does it. It should not be able to sensibly detect the TV/multimedia card at all without me telling it.

So question is: how get it to detect the hardware just like it was a fresh install??

evo2 · 01-06-2010, 03:27 AM

The module may be loaded automatically if the hardware is detect. The "card=81" option could possibily be being read from a file in /etc/modprobe.d/.

Evo2.

lugoteehalt · 01-06-2010, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evo2

The module may be loaded automatically if the hardware is detect. The "card=81" option could possibily be being read from a file in /etc/modprobe.d/.

Evo2.

That's what it seems to be:

Code:

options saa7134 card=81 tuner=54 gbuffers=32 vbibufs=32 audio_ddep=10 tsbufs=32 alsa=1 gpio_tracking=1
/etc/modprobe.d/saa7134 (END

Enormous thanks, no chance I would have worked that out. The reason I use Debian is that it normally doesn't pull stunts like that.

lugoteehalt · 01-07-2010, 01:22 AM

For the record the problem was the firmware for DVB. The backport firmware did not seem to have the correct thing, but http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/...mware/download did.