[MythDora] Autoloading modules in 2.6.20

gchris gchris at bellsouth.net
Fri Mar 23 21:17:56 CET 2007


Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 11:39:26 Dennis Hand wrote:
>>> No joy, I've just installed V4L-kmdl at the same level but it didn't
>>> make any difference.  Question.  If I want to remove that, will YUM be
>>> able to restore the old modules or would I have to force install the
>>> kernel to get them back?
>>>
>>> Chris
>> What didn't work? Did cx88-dvb not autoload or work at all? Did the
>> NTSC side of the card work? Did ivtv still seem to work OK? To remove
>> the video4linux packages just do a rpm -e kmdl first then the driver I
>> believe. Then you could do a depmod -ae to be sure your using the old
>> modules.
> 
> 
> Just rpm -e video4linux-kmdl-x.y.z, it doesn't nuke in-kernel modules, it only 
> puts newer versions in a path with higher search precedence. No need to 
> depmod, that's done by the kmdl's %postun scriptlet.

Great! A Suse system burned me pretty bad on that.  Glad to hear you RH 
guys are smarter. ;)

Chris





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