>>>>> " " == Jan-Albert Venter <JAVenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi, following the instructions in the devfs doc's (downloaded
> from the homepage) I got most of my system working fine. There
> are however two things I couldn't do,
> 1) normal users cannot log on through the console, after
> logging in the console is cleared and a new login prompt
> appears I could however get root logon's working again.
Did you change /etc/securetty and /etc/inittab?
If you use /dev/vc/? instead of /dev/tty? in both everything should
work (even without devfsd).
> 2) using su normal_username I confirmed that I could not get
> startx to work from a user account, I tried to apply the patch
> as described in the doc's without success
Hmm, sorry, no clue. I use a framebuffer and the X for
framebuffer. Works perfect on /dev/fb/0.
> For the moment that's the only things I have had problems with.
> I am using RedHat 6.2 and kernel 2.4test1
> Sorry for the repost, I forgot another question, having done
> this, what happened to my old /dev files and entries, can i
> delete them ? how do I do that ?
When you have the devfs to be mounted automatically at bootup you can
delet the files in dev, but better move the old directory to /dev.old
and make a new /dev (for testing if it realy works). To do that, you
need to unmount the devfs (hope you can do that, maybe only in single
user mode). If nothing works, boot a rescue disk and move dev to
dev.old and make a new directory /dev.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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