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Re: PCMCIA and devfs

To: Manfred "W." Baumstark <maba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA and devfs
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 Feb 2001 14:31:25 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3A8C3919.51093E42@ukl.uni-freiburg.de>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102151943470.18171-100000@jeremi.jeremi.pl> <3A8C3919.51093E42@ukl.uni-freiburg.de>
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You should also have the file /etc/modules.devfs which was inadvertantly
left out of the devfsd RPM we distributed... this file is needed for
module autoloading.

You can get the file out of the standard devfsd distribution, or from
the "updates/" dir on our FTP site.

-Eric


On 15 Feb 2001 21:16:25 +0100, Manfred W. Baumstark wrote:
> My devfsd.conf file is unmodified from "devfsd-v1.3.11" and looks like you
> suggest. And devfsd is loaded:
> 
> [maba@asus03 maba]$ ps -ef | grep devfs
> root        24     1  0 20:48 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev
> maba       822   813  0 20:50 pts/0    00:00:00 grep devfs
> 
> In my /dev there are a lot of compatibility entries. There must be a
> problem with autoloading the ide-cd driver. If I maually load the cd driver
> by "modprobe ide-cd" I can mount the cd. The mouse problem is only minor,
> as the mouse works in X. I nearly never need gpm. Once I have found the
> config-file for gpm I will change it to use /dev/psaux as the devfs FAQ
> suggests ;-).
> 
> Manfred 



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