Hi, We are using a linux driver for the ECDIS kernel provided by SevenCs gmbh. I used this module many times, but now I've got a machine were it gives the error message: "unable to get major number" Can someone tell me what kind of error message this is and how can I fix this problem?
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Harry, Am Montag, 3. Februar 2003 11:25 schrieb Berge, Harry ten:
I used this module many times, but now I've got a machine were it gives the error message: "unable to get major number" Some pointers: MajorNumber is the the Device Driver as registered in the kernel. Devices are made up up of major numbers(kernel) and minor numbers (hw-pointer) There should be a possibility to report those numbers, but I have not found it in Linux. (HP is great with "ioscan"). My "off-the-cuff" idea would be that the driver is somehow not properly registered, or you need a devicefile of sorts (man mknod) Any more details on this ?
HTH a little bit Dan
On 2003.02.03 11:51 Dan Am wrote:
There should be a possibility to report those numbers, but I have not found it in Linux. (HP is great with "ioscan").
cat /proc/devices will give you a list of all major numbers for which there are currently drivers loaded. ioscan, as far as I know, will scan the actual hardware, but the PC world has more varied and unstandardized hardware. Nevertheless, SuSE has "hwscan", which will report on just about everything. Anders
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