Re: How to update the hardware database for autodetection?
Ben Lau <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.knoppix |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Klaus Knopper wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:15:49PM +0800, Ben Lau wrote: > >>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 >>>_______________________________________________ >>>debian-knoppix mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix >> >>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. > > > In this case, it would be best not to load the module by autodetection > at all, but configure it manually with the nice "configure-xawtv" tool > from Fabian, which is located in the KNOPPIX menu. So, I _still_ need > the PCI numbers in order to add a "none" in the module field in > pcitable. ;-) > > >>The data: >> >>Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) >>109e:0878 > > > So, vendor ID is 109e, product ID is 0878, right? > > Regards > -Klaus Knopper yes , Vendor ID is 109e and product ID is 0878. ohohoh... because redhat 9 can create a correct modules.conf for it.. I just thought Knoppix can perform it too. Would it have plan to upgrade the autodetection engine to make it be able to load module with specific options?