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Re: udev and fb



On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:21:17PM +0000, Jason A Whittle wrote:

| but it seems that with udev, the /dev/fb[0-9] devices 
| no longer exist. Is there a way to get around this, or does everyone 
| simply use xterms these days? 

My solution was to add this line to /etc/udev/links.conf :

    M fb0           c 29 0

With that line, udev will always create the node.

(the parameters were obtained using 'ls -l' on a non-udev system; I
need this so X will start because I use vesafb)

-D

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