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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] update on udev on /dev status
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:44:18 +0100

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:26:00PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> nvidia isn't sysfs aware so the following needs adding to udev.missing
>
> nvidia0:c:195:0:0666:root:root
> nvidia1:c:195:1:0666:root:root
> nvidia2:c:195:2:0666:root:root
> nvidia3:c:195:3:0666:root:root
> nvidia4:c:195:4:0666:root:root
> nvidia5:c:195:5:0666:root:root
> nvidia6:c:195:6:0666:root:root
> nvidia7:c:195:7:0666:root:root
> nvidiactl:c:195:255:0666:root:root
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> they are all the same permissions and owners as the NVIDIA_driver Makefile
> creates during install.
> Udev running well here, thanks Arwed.

Will add them when i finally find some time to get back to the udev
stuff, thanks for reporting it :)

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:18, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > another update on the udev front, things are progressing nicely :)
> > Thanks to Hamish and Casey for providing me with a MAKEDEV script.
> >
> > Changes since last time:
> >
> > - the init.d spell will check the static /dev for console and null
> > devices, if they don't exist it offers to create a static dev tree,
> > defaulting to yes (this is only checked if the user chooses udev or
> > static for device management)
> > - the udev spell now installs a /etc/udev/udev.missing file that gets
> > processed by the devices init script to create the devices udev
> > doesn't know about, the file is commented and currently contains only
> > the ppp device, if anyone finds more missing devices they can be added
> > easily.
> >
> > Still missing is securetty and fstab editing, securetty is easy, fstab
> > is hard. For fstab it'll need to map devfs names like
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc -> /dev/hda and vice versa, same
> > for scsi. If anyone wants to take a shot at it i'll be happy to include
> > it in the init.d spell.
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