bt878 working perfectly, until the next boot!

[Ricardo C O Freitas]

On Saturday 19 August 2006 07:16, Tod Merley wrote:

Hi, 

It works! Until the next boot! Again and Yet!

These modules are loaded during the boot but they do not work!

I have to rmmod them and load again!

Then everything is just fine! Of course If I leave the machine ON!

If I reboot I have to re-config from scratch!

Any ideas?

Ricardo

> On 8/18/06, Ricardo C O Freitas <ricardocastanho at uol.com.br> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got to make my video board to work with sound and everything but,
> > that's until next boot!
> >
> > I've place de modprobe bttv and bt878 in /etc/modules.
> >
> > How can I make it last?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ricardo
> > new to ubuntu and debian
> >
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> Hi Ricardo!
>
> I am new as well.
>
> First I beleive you need to do:
>
> sudo depmod -a
>
> Which I believe will build all of the dependencies related to your
> modules (and everybody elses) into the system (everybody knows the
> language of everybody else - so to speak).
>
> With that done do a:
>
>   sudo modprobe bttv
>
> and:
>
>    sudo modprobe bt878
>
> And THEN check and see that these modules are in /etc/modules.
>
> Here is how my /etc/modules looks:
>
> ---------------------
> tod at tod-desktop:~$ cat /etc/modules
> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
> # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
>
> lp
> psmouse
> tod at tod-desktop:~$
> ---------------------
>
> The last line above is a prompt of course.  I do not think you need
> "modprobe bttv" in that file or "modprobe bt878".  Probably the result will
> be looking something like:
>
> ---------------------
> tod at tod-desktop:~$ cat /etc/modules
> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
> # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
>
> lp
> psmouse
> bttv
> bt878
> tod at tod-desktop:~$
> ---------------------
>
> I have not directly done this specifically to do this and watch the
> results so do a:
>
> man depmod
>
> man module
>
> man modprobe
>
> man modprobe.conf
>
> To see the manual files.
>
> Good Hunting!
>
> Tod

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