On 01/30/2005 10:34 pm, Thomas Hood wrote: > 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. This is what I had tried:
#mkdir --mode=755 /dev/thinkpad #mknod --mode=664 /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad c 10 170 #chown root:thinkpad /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad This worked but the device would disappear after a reboot. > > Alternatively you can add 'thinkpad' to /etc/modules. I had not tried this, I had added nvram to that file and solved that problem. I will try adding thinkpad to that file also. > > You should install the latest version (5.8-3) of thinkpad-base in order > to get the /etc/udev/permissions.d/thinkpad.permissions file. I just noticed there is a newer one in Sarge, which I will install. I have 5.8.1 installed. Thank you for the help. -- 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
