Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Griffin wrote:
> 
> --- zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Here is something else with bttv, back in my 7.3
> > version of suse,
> > the bttv module was loaded and unloaded by the
> > application,
> > like xawtv. Now with 8.1, the bttv module gets
> > loaded whenever
> > X starts, and stays loaded. I guess the newer
> > version of X loads it
> > automatically, even if I don't use an app that needs
> > it.
> >
> 
> Yes, this was how I first discovered the problem --
> the sound to my TV card would activate upon boot, even
> if I had not run kwintv or xawtv yet.  How can I
> prevent bttv from loading upon boot?  And, even
> better, how I can force kwintv or xawtv to unload the
> module when I quit the program?

What I do is just mute the line in from the tv card to the sound card.

In /etc/init.d/boot.local

#
# Mute Line in
#
amixer sset Line,0 mute


This works for me. 

Mark