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bravo911
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 Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: How do I switch from usbfs to usbdevfs? |
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| I have a scanner dependent upon usbdevfs, but my system automatically mounts and uses usbfs instead. Where do I change that if it is not listed in the /etc/fstab file? If I manually unmount the usbfs filesystem and mount usbdevfs in it's place everything works fine. I just need to make the change permanent! Hopefully this is an easy answer! |
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chunderbunny
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| If it's not listed in the fstab, how is it being automatically mounted? |
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bravo911
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: Here's my fstab |
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take a look at my fstab
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda2 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda4 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 2
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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that's it! would my usb driver (*hci-hid modules) mount it as a dependency perhaps?
Shoe gnomes i'm sure. |
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chunderbunny
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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Bizarre. 
What happens if you add a line corresponding to your scanner into the fstab? It would look something like this: | Code: | | /dev/scanner /mnt/scanner usbdevfs defaults 0 0 |
Edit: Also, I guess it is possble that hotplug might be mounting the drive... |
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pzgren
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | cd /etc/init.d/
gentuxi init.d # grep usbfs *
localmount: # 2.5+ kernels, and later 2.4 kernels have 'usbfs',
localmount: local usbfs="$(grep -Fow usbfs /proc/filesystems ||
localmount: if [ -n "${usbfs}" ] && \
localmount: ebegin "Mounting USB device filesystem (${usbfs})"
localmount:# mount -t ${usbfs} ${usbgid:+-o devmode=0664,devgid=$usbgid} \
localmount: mount -t ${usbfs} none /proc/bus/usb &>/dev/null |
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bravo911
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:15 am Post subject: |
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I did notice that as well, but for some odd reason, my HP Scanjet 5200 simply does not function using the usbfs filesystem mounted on /proc/bus/usb... if i unmount it, and mount usbdevfs in it's place i can get the scanner working (under root only, but first things first!)
I know that hotplug is responsible for mounting the usbfs filesystem, but ultimately i would like to have usbdevfs mounted instead (or for SOME idea of how to get the scanner to work using usbfs!) do I need to modify the hotplug config? If so, what do I need to change? |
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