Re: [PATCH] add udev support to mga_vid svn

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Tamas, Gergely wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Now I just wonder what happend to /dev/fb0 and /dev/fb1 as they are needed
> > for tv-out. They doesnt exist in /dev. Something that has to be added to
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/ ? Anyone knows?
>
> Do you have your framebuffer driver loaded?

Yes;

matroxfb_crtc2         14017  0
matroxfb_maven         20045  0
i2c_matroxfb            9793  0
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matroxfb_base          34845  2 matroxfb_crtc2,i2c_matroxfb
matroxfb_DAC1064       15297  2 matroxfb_crtc2,matroxfb_base
matroxfb_accel          8513  1 matroxfb_base
matroxfb_Ti3026        10177  1 matroxfb_base
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matroxfb_misc          12865  8 
matroxfb_crtc2,matroxfb_maven,i2c_matroxfb,matroxfb_base,matroxfb_DAC1064,matroxfb_Ti3026,matroxfb_g450,g450_pll

> Do you have something like this in udev.rules?
> rules.d/udev.rules:KERNEL=="fb[0-9]*", NAME="fb/%n", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="video"

Nope.
I have added it in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules now (I have no 
udev.rules only) I commented this out first:

#KERNEL=="fb0",                 SYMLINK+="fb"

Hmm, how to make udev understand that it should re-read the cfgfiles and 
create it?