/dev/sonypi deleted after every reboot

Patrick Jordan volinux at gmail.com
Sat Oct 16 15:34:13 UTC 2004


On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:10:55 -0700, Andrew Farris
<fedora at andrewfarris.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 03:57 -0400, vol atile wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:47:09 -0400, Dwaine Garden
> > <dwainegarden at rogers.com> wrote:
> > > vol atile wrote:
> 
> > > >The sonypi module requires /dev/sonypi but after making it with mknod
> > > >/dev/sonypi c 10 250 it's gone after every reboot. Is there some new
> > > >way to make special devices or is this a bug?
> 
> > > It's udev.  Read the list.  It's been mentioned, with a simple copy of
> > > the /dev/thedevice.
> 
> >
> > Alright, but the udev man page is definetly fudged.  It just says "Running sed."
> >
> 
> You probably need a udev update, udev-036-1 appears to have a readable
> manpage.  Are other manpages on your system working?

Every other man page seems to work fine, my udev version is 038-1
though. Seems 038-2 is in rawhide now, maybe it's fixed.




More information about the test mailing list