From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <PrakashKC@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:23:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040130172310.GB5265@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <401A8A35.1020105@gmx.de>
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:45:41PM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> perhaps you remember me being a gentoo user wanting to switch to udev.
> Well I did so, but am having some problems:
>
> 1.) Minor one: Nodes for Nvidia (I am using binary display modules
> 1.0.5328) ar not created. I have to do it by hand each start-up (written
> into loacal.start.):
> mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0
> mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
Heh, and you expect me to be able to modify a binary driver to work with
udev how? :)
You're on your own here...
> 2.) More probelmatic: I am having some serious troubles with my Epson
> Perfection USB scanner:
> a) I am to dumb to write a rule for it to map it to /dev/usb/scanner0
>
> I don't exactly know which SYSFS_ field to use as the don't match the
> lsusb descriptor. I tried various ones, but the scanner always gets
> mapped to /dev/scanner0. I managed to get my HP printer to be mapped to
> usb/lp0 by using its serial. This is my (latest non working )line for
> the scanner:
What does:
usbinfo -a -p /sys/class/usb/scanner0
say?
That should help you generate a proper rule.
> Now the serious issue: When rebooting or disconnecting the scanner I get
> a kernel oops:
That's because you shouldn't be using the scanner driver at all :)
Please just use the latest xscane, it can talk to the scanner through
usbfs/libusb with no kernel module needed. This is a well known bug if
you search the lkml archives...
Hope this helps.
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-30 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 21:50 [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release Greg KH
2004-01-26 23:56 ` Greg KH
2004-01-27 5:52 ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-27 22:22 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <1075351964.7680.12.camel@nosferatu.lan>
2004-01-29 21:54 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <1075395125.7680.21.camel@nosferatu.lan>
2004-01-29 21:55 ` Greg KH
2004-01-31 3:17 ` Kay Sievers
[not found] ` <1075571697.7232.11.camel@nosferatu.lan>
2004-01-31 18:15 ` Kay Sievers
[not found] ` <1075573621.7232.14.camel@nosferatu.lan>
2004-01-31 18:39 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-30 16:45 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-30 17:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-30 17:44 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-30 17:49 ` Greg KH
2004-01-30 18:17 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
[not found] ` <1075649046.24826.8.camel@nosferatu.lan>
2004-02-02 8:46 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-01 22:52 ` hal daemon and ide-floppy J.A. Magallon
2004-02-02 3:16 ` Greg KH
2004-02-02 7:35 ` reflex
2004-02-02 22:32 ` udev depends on /usr J.A. Magallon
2004-02-02 22:44 ` Greg KH
2004-02-02 23:01 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-02-02 23:08 ` [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-02 23:11 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <1075401020.7680.25.camel@nosferatu.lan>
2004-02-02 23:32 ` Greg KH
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