Pauline Middelink wrote: > 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... I agree, but we have to deal with the fact that when these chip are integrated with different hardware, they require different low level settings (like V and H timing, I/O filters, etc.). And, video decoder/encoder API does not support these. Therefore, the only way right now is to keep separate sources for different cards :-(. Any idea how to solve this? -- Serguei Miridonov
