Hello, Again, Leif! When I run svga start I get the module loaded, but I get the error: Loading svgalib_helpermake: *** No rule to make target `device'. Stop. I put your Makefile.ext in the indicated library [ .........svgalib_helper], with and without the .ext extension, and it didn't help. Should another Makefile go here? If so, what is the Makefile.ext for? And after running this I still get the same error when I try to run svgalib after rebooting: svgalib: Cannot open /dev/svga Is svgalib_helper module loaded? But this is still way further than I got with Mandrake or Debian or Ubuntu/Debian. If you have solved this problem, Leif, I am very interested!! Sorry for the stupid questions... Keep me posted, and 73, ROger W3SZ > Hi Roger, > > > Unfortunately, I still have the problem after rebooting. > > > OK. I know now it is because the /dev/svga files are missing. > > The solution I adapted was to run the svga file. > > I put copies and links as in Makefile.ext which might > be part of the next Linrad version. (Unless Matan > releases a new version that makes it superfluous) > > Afterwords I got the following from Matan: > > > I use FC3, and don't have this problem. FC3 uses udev, which creates > > the devices automatically when the modules is inserted. > > Do you run modprobe svgalib_helper, or trust kmod to load the module? > > udev does not support this method, since the devices are not there > > before the module is loaded. > > > > Anyway, since udev creates the /dev/ directory every boot, if you want a > > permanent device that udev does not create for some reason, run > > > > cp -a /dev/svga* /etc/udev/devices > > > > Since udev (or fedora startup scripts) copy devices from there to /dev > > on boot. > > Maybe using modprobe rather than insmod makes something automatically? > > I tried svgalib-1.9.19 on several old distributions and it does not > work. I have sent error messages to Matan, maybe he can fix it easily. > I think it is valuable to keep backwards compatibility and make > Linrad easy to use on elderly computers. None of the modern distributions > runs directly on my old Pentium although it is fully adequate for > Linrad with 5 kHz bandwidth. Maybe if I recompile the kernels for it > on another computer..... > > The old svgalib-1.4.3 can still be used (of course) but its VESA driver > is so hopelessly slow. > > Roger, I guess you are no longer interested in Fedora Core 3 judging > all the posts on the list about other alternatives, but I try to ensure > Linrad will work under any distribution....... > > 73 > > Leif / SM5BSZ > >
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