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marin_linuxer

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'devfsd.conf' a HOWTO

For those, like me, who find the new dsvfs a mixed blessing/curse, I submit the following:

HOWTO-devfsd setup

The default /etc/devfsd.conf installed by devfsd contains some comments to get people started, but it's a bit limited. Here's a commented devfsd.conf with some additional setups for alsa, cd burning and other stuff, for further information on what you can do with devfsd.conf, see the devfsd manpage:

 
# Sample /etc/devfsd.conf configuration file.

# Enable module autoloading.
LOOKUP          .*              MODLOAD

# setup alsa permissions
REGISTER        ^snd/           PERMISSIONS -1.audio 0660

# setup permissions for oss audio/alsa oss emulation
REGISTER        ^sound/         PERMISSIONS -1.audio 0660

# setup some symlinks for oss audio/alsa oss emulation
REGISTER        ^sound/mixer$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname mixer
REGISTER        ^sound/mixer$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname mixer0
UNREGISTER      ^sound/mixer$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink mixer
UNREGISTER      ^sound/mixer$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink mixer0
REGISTER        ^sound/dsp$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname dsp
UNREGISTER      ^sound/dsp$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink dsp
REGISTER        ^sound/adsp$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname dsp1
UNREGISTER      ^sound/adsp$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink dsp1

# setup cdrecord compatibility devices and permissions
REGISTER ^scsi/host0/bus0/target(.)/lun0/generic CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname sg1
REGISTER ^scsi/host0/bus0/target(.)/lun0/generic PERMISSIONS -1.burning 660
UNREGISTER ^scsi/host0/bus0/target(.)/lun0/generic CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink sg1

# setup cdrdao device
REGISTER    ^cdroms/cdrom0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrecorder
UNREGISTER  ^cdroms/cdrom0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrecorder

# setup apm compat device (XFree seems to need it)
REGISTER        ^misc/apm_bios$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname apm_bios
UNREGISTER      ^misc/apm_bios$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink apm_bios

# setup rtc compat device (i use this for mplayer, don't know if anything else
# can make use of it)
REGISTER        ^misc/rtc$      CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname rtc
REGISTER        ^misc/rtc$      PERMISSIONS -1.-1 0644
UNREGISTER      ^misc/rtc$      CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink rtc

# vmware monitor symlinking, so vmware finds it
REGISTER        ^misc/vmmon$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname vmmon
UNREGISTER      ^misc/vmmon$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink vmmon

# needed for vmware
REGISTER        ^vc/(.*)$       CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname tty1
UNREGISTER      ^vc/(.*)$       CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink tty1

# setup video4linux compat device (thanks to rycee)
REGISTER        v4l/.*          PERMISSIONS -1.video 660

SOURCE:http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?pa … vfsd+setup

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