udev holds up the boot process by hanging on the bttv module for a good 2 minutes or so. This might have something to do with the cards apparently being tuner-less (just video-in), but unfortunately I found this system in the trash and don't know much about the cards in it (3x 4 port BTTV-compatible PCI cards).
lspci says: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01) 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 02:06.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-transparent mode) (rev 11) 03:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 03:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 03:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 03:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 03:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 03:0e.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 03:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 03:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
From dmesg: Linux video capture interface: v2.00 bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 53686 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:0c.0, irq: 22, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf2100000 bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=003fffff [init] tveeprom 0-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? bttv0: tuner type unset bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 bttv: Bt8xx card found (1). bttv1: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:0d.0, irq: 23, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf2102000 bttv1: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected] bttv1: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=007fffff [init] tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? bttv1: tuner type unset bttv1: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv1: registered device video1 bttv1: registered device vbi1 bttv: Bt8xx card found (2). bttv2: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:0e.0, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf2104000 bttv2: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected] bttv2: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00bfffff [init] tveeprom 2-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? bttv2: tuner type unset bttv2: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv2: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv2: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... <6>EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal Adding 996020k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:996020k not found bttv2: registered device video2 bttv2: registered device vbi2 bttv: Bt8xx card found (3). bttv3: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:0f.0, irq: 21, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf2106000 bttv3: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected] bttv3: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init] tveeprom 3-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? bttv3: tuner type unset bttv3: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... <6>eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 not found bttv3: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv3: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv3: registered device video3 bttv3: registered device vbi3
`emerge --info` output missing.
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How often are you going to be using the bttv card? If it usually won't have any video input, why don't you blacklist the driver from being loaded automatically, and manually load bttv when you do need it?
The sole purpose of getting this machine running is the bttv card. :)
Did you already what happens if you blacklist bttv and then do modprobe bttv once the system is up and running? PS: As your bttv card seems to have no eeprom (with subvendor/subdevice id) the driver cannot know the exact type card you should provide the bttv module the parameter card=...
modprobe hangs for some time as well. To date, I have not been able to successfully randomly guess which of the hundreds of card ids might work... And the system's hard drive decided to fail, so as of right now I'm stuck.
so doing just `modprobe bttv` takes a long time ? sounds like the kernel, not userspace
I think the autodetect is not working. We need to find the card=n parameter to pass to this driver during modprobe. I've never seen one of these in my life, any way to get the manufacturer at all? Can you try card=10 and then card=13 and then card=23?
