From: John Jasen <jjasen@datafoundation.com>
To: William Knop <w_knop@hotmail.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Modules and DevFS
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:22:19 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102011021520.31149-100000@flash.datafoundation.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F204tAEHLB8TrBHxvZ900001de6@hotmail.com>
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, William Knop wrote:
> >One thing that I've noticed with devfs is that all the old-style names are
> >symlinks.
>
> Hmm... I have no symlinks until the module loads. Therefore X sees no
> /dev/input/mouse, doesn't ask the kernel for it, the kernel doesn't load the
> module, and DevFS doesn't add the /dev entry. There's got to be an easy way
> around this. Perhaps it has already been implimented, but I haven't been
> able to get anything to work well (manual loading for me).
change your XF86Config file to point to /dev/psaux
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-01 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-01 8:44 William Knop
2001-01-31 22:56 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-02 10:35 ` Helge Hafting
2001-02-02 20:00 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-05 10:36 ` Helge Hafting
2001-02-02 20:33 ` Georg Nikodym
2001-02-01 10:23 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-01 15:22 ` John Jasen [this message]
2001-02-01 16:13 ` Georg Nikodym
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2001-01-31 21:34 William Knop
2001-01-30 22:20 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-01-31 22:05 ` Brian May
2001-02-01 10:31 ` Helge Hafting
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