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Re: .Xmodmap and new input layer, upgrades and breakage



On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:42:03PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> I'm not in front of my Debian box. What is used to generate the /dev nodes ? A 
> postinstall script ? of which package ? Is it in the base.tgz ?

the nodes in /dev are in base2_2.tgz, but they are also
generated/maintained by /dev/MAKEDEV in the makedev package.  when
this package is upgraded any new standard nodes are created. 

IMO makedev should have been taught about the /dev/input/* nodes and
put into r2.  (since the new kernel that went into r2 uses them)
makedev would have been upgraded, its postinst would have updated /dev
creating /dev/input and everything would be everything again.  (except
gpm and X would probably have to be fixed by the user or they might
have to repoint /dev/mouse but thats not so bad)

> ... Maybe switching to devfs would fix the node creation part

oh god no, please no...

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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