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I don't know if I should blame it on the 2.6.3 kernal that I have recently installed or if I have made a stupid mistake, but I donīt know why my options bttv card=78 tuner=32 radio=1 that are stated in my modules.conf arnīt loaded.
My /etc/modules.conf
#TV Card
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
alias char-major-81 bttv
options bttv card=78 tuner=32 radio=1
#Sound
alias sound-slot-0 snd_intel8x0
But the result is:
My dsmeg error
i2c /dev entries driver
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.12 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:0a.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd8000000
bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=003fffff [init]
bttv: readee error
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
Hey Erol I just put exactly the same in the modprobe.conf and voila (dunno how to spell that) it worked! Sweet!
Yeah we meet again Thanks again for all your help in the other thread... its great to have direct rendering!
Hey its going to be embarasing soon if I donīt start learning stuff!! With my number posts.
Hey I never understood this sort of thing:
Quote:
alias char-major-81
Do you know of any good/basic explinations of how it works or how to figure out what numbers you need to put?? I know it somthing to do with how the kernal deals with things...
Well I'm no kernel expert either, but I would see it as naming convention for certain hardware types. It looks to me like addresses to whom kernel points to if it wants to do smth with certain hardware. And alias, is nothing else than shortcut to that address.
I guess the guys who know more than us will laugh when they read this, but it doesn't hurt to think a bit loud
Well, I'm not laughing. Guess that means I don't know very much. Which we knew already.
Seems to me like you're setting up the 81st major character device (which are probably defined in the kernel) to use whatever device/driver you put next.
But that's a best guess.
Hey Erol I know what you mean about feeling stupid! With all the stuff that the people in this forum know... lets just say a lot!
Mind you when I go to other forums (Not specilalised for linux) I feel kind of intelligent! Must be learning somthing!
I am going to read up on this char major thingee must be some info somewhere on it... if I can understand how it works... who knows maby I can try to explain it clearly to you!
Hey Rounan sounds like a feasibly idea... Still I guess I will have to try reading one of these manual things
Hey I found this in the rute guide more or less expalins i
Hey I found this in the rute guide more or less expalins it:
18.3 Major and Minor Device Numbers
Devices are divided into sets called major device numbers. For instance, all SCSI disks are major number 8. Further, each individual device has a minor device number like /dev/sda, which is minor device 0. Major and minor device numbers identify the device to the kernel. The file name of the device is arbitrary and is chosen for convenience and consistency. You can see the major and minor device number ( 8, 0) in the ls listing for /dev/sda:
No worries... its cool to be able to put somthing back into this forum and help you understand somthing... especially after all that help you gave me with my direct rendering
Oh yeah now I just need to figure out where the numbers are kept! I guess there must be a table or somthing somwhere, probably in documents that come with the kernal or somthing.
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