A glimpse at the desktop user

[James Leone <berthabrains@yahoo.com>]

> I've done more checking on this problem and found 
> out that if I power OFF the USB printers, Zip750,  
> and sound system, then lilo.conf does not get
>overwritten, though the Shutdown problem does not
>change. I installed LindowsOS v2.* again last night
>to see if the problem existed with that version and
>it was exactly the same problem all around as with
>v3.0. I just checked to see if only one device was
>causing lilo.conf to be overwritten and sure enough
>the ZIP750 drive was the problem. When I leave the
>USB cable disconnected from ZIP750 then lilo.conf
>does not get overwriten. I remember that I also had
>this problem with an External ZIP100 drive on same
>computer and an Internal ZIP100 drive on another
>computer. So, if you have a ZIP*** drive connected to
>your computer, I think you can expect to have
>problems...Roger

>Edited by kirkpatrick12@comcast.net (12/04/02 09:50
>AM)

 >LindowsOS uses devfs, a device file system which is
>generated by the kernel in ram. Any files you create
>there will disappear on reboot.
>
>If you need to add a device, e.g., a symlink like
>/dev/modem, then you need to write a script that will
>recreate it at boot time. If that device is not used
>until the desktop starts, you could just add the
>script to your autostart directory. Otherwise, it
>should go in /etc/init.d and links created for it
>with the program update-rc.d.


> ok here is a script I made... I run this script
>every start up and it all works: I also copied the
>from the quickcam-tt directory to
>/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/video/
>quickcam.o and mod_quickcam.o
>I have only tried this once so I will test more and
>see if it always works...
>
>#Create the webcam device
>mkdir /dev/v4l/
>mknod /dev/v4l/video0 c 81 0
>ln -s /dev/v4l/video0 /dev/video0
>ln -s /dev/v4l/video0 /dev/video
>
>
># Video4Linux Support
>/sbin/insmod videodev
>
># USB Core Module
>/sbin/insmod usbcore
>
># USB UHCI/OHCI Controller Modules (new)
>/sbin/insmod usb-uhci
>/sbin/insmod usb-ohci
>
># USB UHCI Controller Modules (old)
>/sbin/insmod uhci
>

>/sbin/insmod mod_quickcam
>/sbin/insmod c-qcam 

Sincerely,

THE TROLL


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