thanx.. the reason I am asking this is that I want my Visor Deluxe work under Debian using gnome pilot.. but I have no luck with compile in visor code, or modules. and I just wondering if it has anything to do with hotplug and devfsd
Edwin lau On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:59:48 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:47:37PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > It is strictly speaking not a Debian question, but since I am > using > > Debian... please help!! I am having trouble trying to sort out what > each > > one of these things do: hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd. I know > they > > are not the same, but I don't know the differences. I check out the > man, > > howtos and various documentation and still don't know what they really > are. > > please help me explaining them. thanx > > kmod is just an option in the kernel configuration to automatically > load kernel modules on demand. there is no userland daemon to worry > about (just modutils which contains /sbin/modprobe) > > hotplug is something very similar to kmod, its new with USB, its only > needed if you use USB extensivly and need certain actions to be > performed whem some devices are attached to the USB bus. > > devfs is optional, you don't need it. don't turn it on unless you > want to break your system, you must know what your doing to mess with > it. > > devfsd adds symlinks to the fake devfs to make it compatible with the > standard naming convention. you don't need it if you don't use > devfs. > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ > Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
