On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:33:43PM +0100, LMa wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I habe been a user of Linux for over one a half year, sporting Debian > 3.1, now with Kernel 2.6.8, KDE 3.3 on a Pentium PC, and I'm very > satisfied. I also have a FireWire card by VIA Technologies (OHCI > compatible). > > Unbelievable: how come that on Knoppix (a Debian derivate) sixty three > (!!!) character device files of the type « /dev/videoXX » are created on > install, and zero (nill, none) on the original Debian? Similarly: why is > the device file « /dev/raw1394 » created on install on Knoppix and not > on Debian? > Anyway. > > So I had to create some manually, as root: > mknod -m 600 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 > mknod -m 600 /dev/video0 c 171 16 > and then (so a regular user could get access ) : > chmod 666 /dev/raw1394 > chmod 666 /dev/video0 > Right. > > And I was able to capture video with Kino (GREAT programme, by the way!). > Wonderful. > > But on reboot, those device files were gone with the wind. > > So here's my question: > how shall I proceed so that the device files remain; that means: on > Debian 3.1 in which file and/or directory shall I write the above > instructions? > IIUC you are using sarge which has a kernel that is using devfs. If you upgrade to a more recent kernel (see backports.org), these use UDEV which is the subsystem that is supported now. UDEV automatically determines what hardware is present and creates dev entries for them.Not that this has many bugs but for the majority of users it works fine. So if you upgrade, udev and the new kernel should just make the device nodes apprear like 'magic'. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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