[mythtv-users] Cards keep changing /dev/videoX devices...

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 00:31:49 UTC 2007


On 17/06/07, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:

> So, what's the secret? How do you repeatably get ONLY the cx88_dvb
> module loaded, without also taking explicit steps to stop the cx8800
> module from being loaded.
> (Being picky, I won't accept answers which involve the cx8800 module
> being loaded at /dev/video2 (using the option line as in your prior
> post) and then the cx88_dvb module being loaded at /dev/dvb/adapter0 etc.)

One method that Fedora offers to control module loading is to put a
file (with extension of .modules) in /etc/sysconfig/modules containing
command you wanting executed early on in the boot process.

If you create a file called /etc/sysconfig/modules/cx88.modules containing

modprobe -r cx8800
sleep 3
modprobe cx88-dvb

You should not have to blacklist the bad module (although this should
stop it being loaded) or worry about the good module not being loaded.

-- 
Nick

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