From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzdRH-0003jT-4I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:14:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzdRE-0003hr-6b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:14:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzdRD-0003gg-Ja for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:14:35 -0500 Received: from [195.122.192.2] (helo=janik.cz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CzdCk-0000Vn-Rb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:59:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu NOT working with devfs References: <20050211081833.140ed5bf.Jens.Arm@gmx.de> <200502111235.25707.martin@liga.dk> From: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel =?iso-8859-2?Q?Jan=EDk?=) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:12:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200502111235.25707.martin@liga.dk> (Martin Moeller's message of "Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:35:25 +0100") Message-ID: <87psz7jl57.fsf@Janik.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org From: Martin Moeller Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:35:25 +0100 > It seems to be in use on SUSE LINUX 9.2 as well: >=20 > crw------- 1 root root 254, 0 2004-10-02 10:38 ipmi0 This only means that if you actually use IPMI, your tools will communicat= e with kernel using character device with major 254. If you do not use IPMI and thus do not have kernel modules loaded, you ar= e OK. Please verify by: cat /proc/devices in section "Character device:" if major 254 is already in use. On my system, e.g.: Character devices: ... 254 pcmcia --=20 Pavel Jan=EDk I forgot that in Linux the GUI isn't part of the OS but patched on=20 top of it with duck-tape :-) -- Waldo Bastian