Re: bttv module intialization takes much time on kernel-2.4.x

[Gerd Knorr]

Tetsuji Rai wrote:
>  Title says it all.  I use bttv module.   When invoking "modprobe bttv" it 
>  takes several minutes to initialize.  When I used kernel-2.2.x it was very 
>  quick, but with kernel-2.4.x it takes a while.   But after that, it works 
>  fine.
>     I don't know why.  Any solutions??

RTFM?

Documentation/video4linux/bttv/README says:

If bttv takes very long to load (happens sometimes with the cheap
cards which have no tuner), try adding this to your modules.conf:
        options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1

HTH,

  Gerd