Re: How to update the hardware database for autodetection?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:01:55PM +0800, Ben Lau wrote:
> hi,
> 
>     I have a bt878 based capture card that required additional options 
> to make it work under debian/knoppix. However , knoppix 3.3 would just 
> simply modprobe the bttv without any options. Result that the system 
> take several minutes to initialize the bttv module but in fact it don't 
> work.
> 
>     Although I can specific the options through the kernel cmd 
> interface , I would like to update the knoppix's hardware database 
> directly. So that I can contribute my work for next version of knoppix.

Just send the "lspci -n" vendor- and product-id of your card, together
with the corresponding module entry to me. The current table is shown in
/usr/share/hwdata/pcitable.

With kind regards
-Klaus Knopper