Added by Thilo Pfennig, last edited by Alexandre Franke on Dec 18, 2009
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About udev in Foresight. Udev creates and removes device nodes in /dev, based on events the kernel sends out on device discovery or removal.
Status
- Still many Scanners dont work. But there is a new package "sane-backends" you can test in 1-devel
- The user for scanners and other puggable devices is "plugdev". The default user gets added to that group.
- The "udev" package is based on the RPM of Fedora Core 7.
- devfs has been obsoleted by udev.
- DEV:Log of successfully working CX3650 multi function (printer+scanner)
Layout
- There is a directory /etc/udev
- and below /etc/udev/rules.d with some rules for devices
- There is a udevd Daemon which controls the udev events.
What about hotplug?
- Open Question: Do we need any hotplug stuff as present in /etc/hotplug by gphoto-suite and iscan?