On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:45:07PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > Mind you, I STILL have no /dev/hdc, or /dev/hdd. /proc/ide/ide0 shows me > hda (all nodes present & correct). There is no hdb in the box. > > /proc/ide/ide1 shows me hdc & hdd as cdroms in the media file. hdd is > actually a dvd. NO NODES :-((.
See. That's technical progress. Without udev you had to have a zillion 'device files' (and MAKEDEV to help you), and with udev you have to have a zillion 'rules' and nothing to help you. It's probably meant to improve your learning abilities. Check if you compiled a driver or module called 'idecd'. It's in Device Drivers/Ata Atapi/IDE Atapi CDROM. Or maybe your drive is one of the 'old CD Roms'? (I think not, though. I'm using old hardware here because of money problems, but if it was _that_ old, the electrolytic capacitors would have dried out by now anyway, wouldn't they.) > Also, btw, loading the 57 framebuffer modules (by running hotplug) seems > to cure the cursor thing, but gives me the ugliest 80x30 screen setting > ever. How does a guy set up his framebuffer modes? Get fbset (from the Debian guys). But with 640x480 on the framebuffer I kept getting 80x30 too, so maybe you need to load another font. I don't know how, though. I guess 'setfont' won't do it, because you have to choose extra framebuffer fonts in 'make menuconfig'. I think you would need a 8x20 font to get 80x24 characters, but the biggest framebuffer font is 8x16, giving the familiar 80x30 characters on 640x480 pixels. I can only guess right now. I gave up on the whole framebuffer thing myself on friday, concerning LFS 6.x. I found X11 on the framebuffer was even slower than on the regular nvidia driver from kernel org. Damn. Everything is different with kernel 2.6. (Not complaining, just ranting.) Joern -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
