[mythtv-users] mythbackend starting before ivtv is loaded?

[Marc Tousignant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Howard Cokl
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:38 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend starting before ivtv is loaded?
> 
> --- Jim Coates <jcoates at jimcoates.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am getting the following errors after a bootup:
> >
> > 2005-07-15 21:43:08.737
> > Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video
> > device, error "No such file or directory"
> > 2005-07-15 21:43:08.745
> > Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video
> > device, error "No such file or directory"
> > 2005-07-15 21:43:08.747 ChannelBase: Could not find
> > input: Tuner 0 on card
> > when setting channel 55
> >
> > If there's a power outage or something and this
> > machine reboots, any
> > recordings will record from channel 4 and not change
> > to the proer channel.
> >
> > if I restart the backend later, those go away and
> > everything is fine.  This
> > wasn't always the case and I've only noticed it
> > since moving to the ivtv
> > that now comes with gentoo as well as changing the
> > firmware I use for my 2
> > pvr-250s.  Any ideas?
> >
> I'm using FC3 (followed Jarod's guide) and had this
> problem.  I just created a startup script in
> /etc/rc3.d/S85tuners which gets run before
> /etc/rc3.d/S86mythbackend.  Here it is
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # description: Loading the tuners for mythbackend so
> it doesn't get \
> #              confused.
> 
> # Source function library.
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
> 
> 
> start() {
>         #/usr/local/bin/MAKEDEV-DVB.sh
>         /sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb
>         /sbin/modprobe ivtv
>         /usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video3 -p 6
> }
> stop() {
>         /sbin/modprobe -r cx88-dvb
>         /sbin/modprobe -r ivtv
> }
> 
> # See how we were called.
> case "$1" in
>   start)
>         start
>         ;;
>   stop)
>         stop
>         ;;
>   *)
>         echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop}"
>         exit 1
> esac
> 
> exit $RETVAL
> 
> Cut and paste and chmod 755
> 
> Howard

Um!!! Why not just add them to autoload? This will load them at boot and
before any services start.
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6