Hi all!
I'm a complete newbie, so this is a typical "user" question. The archive
linked from the FAQ is apparently dead (404), but the FSF/UNESCO Free
Software Directory lists this mailing list as a help list, so I hope my
questions are welcome! :-) Allthough I'm a newbie, I have the Perl
programmer's Hubris, and I think I'm quite successful, except for a
final showstopper I think may involve devfs.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've struggled to get a second seat on my
computer. My girlfriend needs to get some work done too, and the only
way we can afford (and have space for) another computer, is to run
another screen, keyboard and mouse off the same box. In the process, I
have no upgraded this box to Debian Unstable, with Andreas Schuldei's
backstreet ruby 2.4.21 kernel sources as well as his XFree86 4.3 with
the PrefBusId patch.
Right now, I'm following the HOWTO at:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/
My kernel compiles, my X config seems OK, Xinerama runs well on both
screens.
The HOWTO mentions devfs favourably, and it looks like an elegant
solution to me, so I'd like to use it!
I've got devfsd running (I got some nasty "bad superblock" errors before
I discovered it), my kernel has the following config:
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
I've tried with and without append="devfs=mount", and I have now
# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS is not set
This is what my currently running kernel has had to say about devfs:
Oct 28 11:51:30 owl kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch
(rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Oct 28 11:51:30 owl kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Oct 28 11:51:30 owl kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Oct 28 11:51:30 owl kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Looks good, eh....? :-)
Well, I next try to run an X-server on the second graphics card, using a
Virtual Terminal (the idea is that a keyboard and mouse should go with
the second screen). It goes:
(++) using VT number 8
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: VT_WAITACTIVE failed
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: VT_GETMODE failed
So, I googled for this error message, and found this:
http://lists.jammed.com/owl-users/2001/11/0027.html
Apparently, I need more tty's than Debian normally has. But, then, if I
have understood the idea behind devfs correctly, X is supposed to get
devfs to make the needed devices for me automagically, right...?
I tried to run this server at vt7, and that worked, expect it used the
same keyboard as my main head.
That's where I'm put off at the moment...
I've been bothering the fine folks on the debian-user-list, and now I'm
turning to you... :-)
Well, the next thing is that in the HOWTO I'm following:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/dev_files.html
apparently, mount is supposed to know when devfs is mounted. Just to do
what it tells me to check:
kjetil@owl:~> cat /proc/filesystems | grep devfs
nodev devfs
nodev usbdevfs
kjetil@owl:~> mount | grep devfs
....nothing... :-(
To be verbose, this is what mount says:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type ext3
(rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 on /home type ext3 (rw,noexec)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 on /tmp type ext3
(rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on /home/felles type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /usr/local/src type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 on /var/junk type ext2
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
So, even though the kern.log clearly states, devfs is mounted on /dev,
and I can't find anything to indicate it is unmounted, it seems devices
aren't created, and when looking at this, I wonder if I have been able
to really mount it....
I have not anything about devfs in /etc/fstab, I shouldn't, should I?
And I still use stuff like /dev/hda1, etc in there...
I would be very happy for any help you can provide!
Cheers,
Kjetil
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