On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:40:12 +0100, Pollywog wrote: > The bigger problem is that /dev/thinkpad disappears after reboots.
If you have udev then the file should reappear when you load the thinkpad module. You can set up a Linux system so that an application's attempt to open a device file results in a module being automatically loaded. On a udev system, however, device files do not exist until modules are loaded, so auto-loading by the latter mechanism is not possible. (devfs was better than udev in this respect: because it lived in the kernel it could detect attempts to open non-existent device files and could load modules and create the device files just-in-time.) If you do this: $ sudo mknod /dev/thinkpad c 10 170 then running tpctl will cause the thinkpad module to be auto-loaded. Alternatively you can add 'thinkpad' to /etc/modules. You should install the latest version (5.8-3) of thinkpad-base in order to get the /etc/udev/permissions.d/thinkpad.permissions file. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
