Driver for SB16 and ATI TV wonder

[Orion-X]

What is the right driver for sb16 isa? (yeah I know, this is an old comp, I am using it as a guinea pig machine to learn linux)

I tried to modprobe emu10k1 but it wasn't working, I was wondering if I needed some parameters, or just simply another driver.

And for TV wonder, I used bttv as the driver for it. Modprobe seem to be okay with it, but I don't know it there is even any app program to watch TV with, so I can't test it. Just right off the back does anyone know whether I am using the right driver or not?

Lastly, how do I remove installed modules? Say, if I see that <blah>'s usage count is 0, is there a way for me to remove it? does it matter (i.e. slow down the system)

thx a lot

[Muzzafarath]

Well, the emu10k1 driver is for SB Live!, no wonder it doesn't work with your SB 16 :)

I don't know what module your soundcard uses, but look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound, there should be something there.

You can unload modules with rmmod. But it'll be a pain to insert them again when they're needed... For example, my soundcard's module has a usage count of 0 when there's no sounds playing. But I don't unload it because of that, because I don't want to insert it again when I *do* want to play a sound ;)

I searched Freshmeat for "TV", I got several hits. Look at the results (http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=TV).

[ 02 May 2001: Message edited by: Muzzafarath ]

[Orion-X]

thx for the pointers

[Orion-X]

I found some info about using the card, it went something like this:

alias char-major-81 bttv pre-install bttv modprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tuner options bttv card=10 options tuner type=2 post-remove bttv modprobe -r msp3400; modprobe -r tuner

But what does that mean? Where am I suppose to put that information?

[Orion-X]

update: okay, after doing some finding, I found some similar information in /etc/modules.conf. In the file it has

alias char-major-81 bttv

I tried to go ahead and add more information after that and rebooted.

But then it gave me all these errors while trying to calculate modules dependency. So I guess that's not where I put the information.

any ideas