On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:09:36PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> This doesn't work with devfs. If the sound module isn't loaded, there is
> no /dev/dsp. There is no /dev/audio/whatever either. The kernel is not
> yet aware that there is a sound card in the machine. As far as I
> understood, th
בSunday 09 May 2004 7:36 pm, נכתב על ידי Muli Ben-Yehuda:
> More details about udev are available here:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ. This is
> required reading material if you think that devfs should not be
> deprectated and is in fact the greatest thing since sl
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sun, 09 May:
> You probably set "mount devfs on boot" when compiling the kernel. This
> is not a recommended option, as far as I recall.
it's OK but if you don't apt-get install devfsd you will go nuts trying
to find your old devices. anoter option is NOT
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:09:36PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Muli said something about a replacement, but you will have to ask him
> about that.
In 2.6, devfs is deprecated, and the recommended replacement is
udev. udev + hotplug + sysfs does basically everything devfs did,
while keeping i
Oded Arbel wrote:
Basicly devfsd gets rid of the mess that /dev is and simply does not show you
nodes for hardware you don't have (no more 200 /dev/ttyS* nodes when you only
have one serial ports) and does away with the single huge list that makes it
hard to find what you want.
The problem is n
alex rait wrote:
> I was trying to compile my 2.6.5 kernel in debian, when after some actions
> I can't recall now, the /dev directory underwent some modifications:
> Somehow there appeared subfolders, and the dev files could be found only
> it's category. For instance in the folder /dev/partiti
alex rait wrote:
I was trying to compile my 2.6.5 kernel in debian, when after some actions I can't recall now, the /dev directory underwent some modifications:
Somehow there appeared subfolders, and the dev files could be found only it's category. For instance in the folder /dev/partitions I've fo
×Sunday 09 May 2004 21:12, ×× ××× alex rait:
> I was trying to compile my 2.6.5 kernel in debian, when after some actions
> I can't recall now, the /dev directory underwent some modifications:
> Somehow there appeared subfolders, and the dev files could be found only
> it's category. For insta
I was trying to compile my 2.6.5 kernel in debian, when after some actions I can't
recall now, the /dev directory underwent some modifications:
Somehow there appeared subfolders, and the dev files could be found only it's
category. For instance in the folder /dev/partitions I've found my harddriv
