A glimpse at the desktop user

I've done more checking on this problem and found out that if I power OFF the USB printers, Zip750, and sound system, then lilo.conf does not get overwritten, though the Shutdown problem does not change. I installed LindowsOS v2.* again last night to see if the problem existed with that version and it was exactly the same problem all around as with v3.0. I just checked to see if only one device was causing lilo.conf to be overwritten and sure enough the ZIP750 drive was the problem. When I leave the USB cable disconnected from ZIP750 then lilo.conf does not get overwriten. I remember that I also had this problem with an External ZIP100 drive on same computer and an Internal ZIP100 drive on another computer. So, if you have a ZIP*** drive connected to your computer, I think you can expect to have problems...Roger

Edited by [email protected] (12/04/02 09:50 AM)

LindowsOS uses devfs, a device file system which is generated by the kernel in ram. Any files you create there will disappear on reboot.

If you need to add a device, e.g., a symlink like /dev/modem, then you need to write a script that will recreate it at boot time. If that device is not used until the desktop starts, you could just add the script to your autostart directory. Otherwise, it should go in /etc/init.d and links created for it with the program update-rc.d.

ok here is a script I made... I run this script every start up and it all works: I also copied the from the quickcam-tt directory to /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/video/ quickcam.o and mod_quickcam.o
I have only tried this once so I will test more and see if it always works...

#Create the webcam device
mkdir /dev/v4l/
mknod /dev/v4l/video0 c 81 0
ln -s /dev/v4l/video0 /dev/video0
ln -s /dev/v4l/video0 /dev/video

# Video4Linux Support
/sbin/insmod videodev

# USB Core Module
/sbin/insmod usbcore

# USB UHCI/OHCI Controller Modules (new) /sbin/insmod usb-uhci
/sbin/insmod usb-ohci

# USB UHCI Controller Modules (old)
/sbin/insmod uhci

/sbin/insmod mod_quickcam
/sbin/insmod c-qcam