[mythtv-users] Which device is which
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Feb 16 23:08:19 UTC 2006
Michael Haan wrote:
> On 2/16/06, *R. G. Newbury* <newbury at mandamus.org
> <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
>
> Brian Wood wrote:
>
>
> I appreciate the time you put into this e-mail. This seems like a
> weak spot in linux; I'm suprised it exists!
I'm not so sure that it is a 'weak spot' so much as 'the way it works is
not quite what we think it is'....The damn thing IS a computer. It
always does what it's told, it's just that we tell it to do stupid
things, not the smart things we think we are telling it to do.
That the kernel loads the modules for the hardware it finds makes
perfect sense. That it does not *seem* to do so in a repeatable order
may well be "operator error". I did not spend any time checking what
was going on. IIRC it was the cx88-blackbird module which kept being
moved in front of cx88-dvb. Maybe those two have to be that way, and it
is actually correct. Maybe I should just make the file read-only!
In any event, once the kernel has loaded the module, modprobe.conf is
irrelevant. This fact IS a little obscure....
Make sure to let us know what you find out......a "SOLVED" in the
subject would be good...
Geoff
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