From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:23:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release Message-Id: <20040130172310.GB5265@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040126215036.GA6906@kroah.com> <401A8A35.1020105@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <401A8A35.1020105@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel