micah, try putting the driver name in /etc/modules. this file is read at
bootup, and modprobe automagically loads every driver named in this file.
pete
begin: Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> For some reason, my joystick drivers don't get autoloaded when
> /dev/input/js0 (or /dev/js0, which is symlinked to the former) are
> opened. The device in 2.4.x kernels is major 13 minor 0; I have:
>
> alias char-major-13 grip
> add above grip joydev gameport ns558
>
> in my modules.conf, but whether it's in there or not,
> /var/log/messages never mentions not finding something for
> char-major-13 (nor does it emit any message at all). It worked fine
> for the older drivers, when they were char-major-15: they would load
> the drivers when specified in modules.conf, and emit a message to
> /var/log/messages when they weren't. I'm not using the dev fs - can
> anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Micah
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