On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 around 18:05:18 -0800, Jon Pennington wrote:
> To address the third and most difficult problem:
>
> As it stands on my system (Linux-2.4.2), there are five modules necessary to run my Pinnacle DC10+; zoran, adv7175, saa7110, i2c-old, and videodev. I've asked repeated times on this and other lists about a more `permanent' solution than using Serguei's update script, but nobody has been able to give me a straight answer. With my trusty Bt878 board, all I had to do was put `alias char-major-81 bttv' in /etc/modules.conf, and it was done for me. By using a placeholder module model, I (or anyone else) could do the same thing, but use `dc10' instead of `bttv'. As I stated at the start of this largely incoherent rant, I'm NOT a programmer and know nothing of the way the Linux kernel and it's modules work. If my idea were sound, though, it could change the way all v4l modules were loaded.
The problem is that those saa7110 and prob. adv7175 are generic encoder/decoder
chips which are used in more than one driver (my own zr36120 zoran driver for
example). Just binding them tight to some driver and just forgetting about
the other drivers is not very nice...
And, to be honest, doing a few post-install's in the conf.modules file
will help you do just that, 'modprobe buz' and be done with it. Yes, i
know, somebody would need to put it in the conf.modules file, but that
why there are README's and INSTALL's :)
Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink
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