Re: /dev files, mfs, audio, startup etc.

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jean-yves.migeon%espci.fr@localhost>]

Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> Q1) Why these device files are absent?
>   
I guess it is because your /dev is mfs mounted. Even if you create your 
devices with MAKEDEV, you will lose /dev content upon reboot.

Anyway, for me, with netbsd-4, /dev is just another directory (like /etc 
or /usr), populated during sysinst.
> Q3) What should I do in order to enable my audio card.
>     Some time ago, it definitely worked just fine.
>   
If you want to run ./MAKEDEV all, you should increase your /dev size. 
MAKEDEV fails because there is no space left.

Try running just a ./MAKEDEV audio first, and see if you have sound again.

A solution would be to have /dev directly on the root partition.
> What files are created at NetBSD startup?
> Where this process is documented?
>   
Good question. Between netbsd 4 and -current, I have seen work about 
dynamic device configuration, like devfs. But I do not know more than 
that, sorry.

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