Re: How to update the hardware database for autodetection?

Ben Lau <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.knoppix
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
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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.
> 
> 
> 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?
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