Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:23:11 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release |
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:45:41PM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > Hi Greg, > > perhaps you remember me being a gentoo user wanting to switch to udev. > Well I did so, but am having some problems: > > 1.) Minor one: Nodes for Nvidia (I am using binary display modules > 1.0.5328) ar not created. I have to do it by hand each start-up (written > into loacal.start.): > mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 > mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
Heh, and you expect me to be able to modify a binary driver to work with udev how? :)
You're on your own here...
> 2.) More probelmatic: I am having some serious troubles with my Epson > Perfection USB scanner: > a) I am to dumb to write a rule for it to map it to /dev/usb/scanner0 > > I don't exactly know which SYSFS_ field to use as the don't match the > lsusb descriptor. I tried various ones, but the scanner always gets > mapped to /dev/scanner0. I managed to get my HP printer to be mapped to > usb/lp0 by using its serial. This is my (latest non working )line for > the scanner:
What does: usbinfo -a -p /sys/class/usb/scanner0 say?
That should help you generate a proper rule.
> Now the serious issue: When rebooting or disconnecting the scanner I get > a kernel oops:
That's because you shouldn't be using the scanner driver at all :) Please just use the latest xscane, it can talk to the scanner through usbfs/libusb with no kernel module needed. This is a well known bug if you search the lkml archives...
Hope this helps.
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