On 7/17/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > What's throwing me is that the libraw1394 emerge makes this limited > > complaint: > > > > ******************************************** > > Required /dev/raw1394 device file not found. > > Run 'make dev' to create it. > > ******************************************** > > This is more suited for the old-style 'static' /dev, where /dev was just a > load of device nodes stored on disk. > > With more modern solutions (devfs/udev), you don't ever have to worry about > creating device nodes, they are created automatically when the appropriate > driver is loaded. Its safe to ignore this warning on Gentoo. > > > It seems to me that if the device was moved by either udev or the > > Gentoo developers then shouldn't this package have been modified to > > understand that and not throw a message like this? Or is there > > possibly supposed to be a link of some type from /dev/raw1394 to > > /dev/raw/raw1394? > > I forgot about this one. This is a udev rule problem, which is supposed to > deal with other raw devices, but not raw1394. It's been fixed for future udev > versions, but for now, you can do this: > > # echo 'KERNEL="raw1394", SYMLINK="%k"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/10-raw1394.rules > # udevstart > > Daniel > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
Thank you Daniel. That's exactly what I was looking for: godzilla ~ # echo 'KERNEL="raw1394", SYMLINK="%k"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/10-raw1394.rules godzilla ~ # udevstart godzilla ~ # ls -al /dev/raw raw/ raw1394 godzilla ~ # ls -al /dev/raw1394 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 17 15:50 /dev/raw1394 -> raw/raw1394 godzilla ~ # 1394commander 1394commander 0.1.1 Copyright (C) 2002-2004 by Manfred Weihs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This software comes with absolutely no warranty. No adapter specified! successfully got handle current generation number (driver): 2 2 card(s) found nodes on bus: 2, card name: ohci1394 nodes on bus: 1, card name: ohci1394 using adapter 0 found: 2 nodes on bus, local ID is 1, IRM is 1 current generation number (adapter): 1 entering command mode Type 'help' for more information! Command: I appreciate your help very much! Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
