On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 00:35:50 -0800 seeker5528@comcast.net wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:28:13 +0200 > "Andras Lorincz" <andras.lorincz@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a tv-tuner with saa7135HL chipset and works fine with kernel version > > 2.6.15.4. When booting I want to pass the module alsa=1 option and to load > > the saa7134-alsa module also. So I took these steps: > > > > 1. created a file /etc/modprobe.d/tuner which contains this: > > > > options saa7134 alsa=1 > > post-install saa7134 insmod > > /lib/modules/2.6.15.4/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa > > > > 2. run update-modules > > > > 3. reboot to see if these take effect > > > > The result is that the saa7134-alsa module doesn't get loaded and this > > message can be read on boot: > > > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/tuner line 2: ignoring bad line starting with > > 'post-install' > > I would have thought it would have complained when you ran > update-modules. > > And I second the opinion that you should be looking at 'man modprobe.d'. > > If you want saa7134-alsa to be loaded after saa7134 then you would need > a line looking something like: > > install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134; /sbin/modprobe > saa7134-alsa > > : If these modules live in your kernel lib directory and are picked up > by depmod then there should be no reason to include the path to them. > > The other poster forgot, or overlooked (?) that you need > --ingore-install before the command to load the module the rule is for > to prevent a second attempt at running through the whole process. oops... A > > You can look at /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to see additional examples of > what the install lines can look like. > > If you want to be able to do 'modprobe -r' to unload the modules then > you may need a remove line in addition to the install line that removes > the modules in the reverse of the order in which they were loaded. > > Later, Seeker > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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