[mythtv-users] Ordering of DVB cards as on bootup

[Janne Grunau]

On Sunday 27 April 2008 01:20:35 Stephen Hocking wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 DVICO Dual Digital 4 cards and a Winfast DTV1000. The
> DTV1000 is attached to one aerial and the DVICOs to another. I have a
> problem where the device attached to the Winfast moves around on
> bootup i.e. one time it's /dev/dvb/adapter1, the next
> /dev/dvb/adapter4 and so forth. I'm running under Ubuntu 7.10 - what
> sort of modprobe trickery in /etc/modeprobe.d should I use to fix the
> Winfast card to a distinct device in /dev/dvb?

One way to solve it would be blacklisting the driver module for the 
winfast to prevent autoloading and add modprobe $(winfast_driver) to a 
start script (for example /etc/init.d/local) which runs after the 
autoloading of the other drivers is completed.

2.6.26 will have a per module option to specify the the preferred 
adapter number ordering. The drivers from the v4l-dvb hg repository 
have this option too.

Janne