Re: freebsd 5.1 and devfs
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 18:51, Frederick Thomas wrote: shalom, I read the manpage on devfs and can't make heads or tails of it. I've a cs4236 onboard pnp sound card that took 2 months to finally get running and I'm gonna wait that long this time. My box is a dell optiplex gx1 and using old school rules catted dmesg.boot and found pcm0my card but when I tried to run sh MAKEDEV snd0 I find that makedev is now deprecated. please assist in my using devfs to make device nodes please reply to address above. Thanks If the card is detected as pcm0 and devfs is running, you should have entries for the device in /dev named dsp* cat /dev/sndstat should also list the device. good luck, Daan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: freebsd 5.1 and devfs
In 5.x devices are automatically built for you on first use. That is just one of the changes between 4.x and 5.x. THAT IS WHY MAKEDEVDOES NOT WORK FOR YOU. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frederick Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: freebsd 5.1 and devfs shalom, I read the manpage on devfs and can't make heads or tails of it. I've a cs4236 onboard pnp sound card that took 2 months to finally get running and I'm gonna wait that long this time. My box is a dell optiplex gx1 and using old school rules catted dmesg.boot and found pcm0my card but when I tried to run sh MAKEDEV snd0 I find that makedev is now deprecated. please assist in my using devfs to make device nodes please reply to address above. Thanks nikita - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
