Re: How to update the hardware database for autodetection?

Klaus Knopper wrote:
> 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
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Hi,

     Thanks for your reply. But what if the module required specific 
options? For example , it need to pass bit_test=1 to i2c-algo-bit and 
card=77 to bttv module.

The data:

Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
109e:0878

modules.conf:
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv card=77