Re: char-major-10

[lists@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels)]

Hi,

> so is it "10," / "10" ?

ls -l /dev |grep "10,"

From: /usr/src/linux/Documantation/devices.txt:

 10 char        Non-serial mice, misc features
                  0 = /dev/logibm       Logitech bus mouse
                  1 = /dev/psaux        PS/2-style mouse port
                  2 = /dev/inportbm     Microsoft Inport bus mouse
                  3 = /dev/atibm        ATI XL bus mouse
                  4 = /dev/jbm          J-mouse
                  4 = /dev/amigamouse   Amiga mouse (68k/Amiga)
                  5 = /dev/atarimouse   Atari mouse
                  6 = /dev/sunmouse     Sun mouse
                  7 = /dev/amigamouse1  Second Amiga mouse
                128 = /dev/beep         Fancy beep device
                129 = /dev/modreq       Kernel module load request
                130 = /dev/watchdog     Watchdog timer port
                131 = /dev/temperature  Machine internal temperature
                132 = /dev/hwtrap       Hardware fault trap
                133 = /dev/exttrp       External device trap
                134 = /dev/apm_bios     Advanced Power Management BIOS
                135 = /dev/rtc          Real Time Clock
                136 = /dev/qcam0        QuickCam on lp0
                137 = /dev/qcam1        QuickCam on lp1
                138 = /dev/qcam2        QuickCam on lp2
                139 = /dev/openprom     SPARC OpenBoot PROM

BTW: if you add the alias for char-major-10 you will get requests for
char-major-10-%d (with %d is a number from the above list) and you should
know which device is missing.

Greetings
Bernd