On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:17 -0500, Amadeus W. M. wrote: > mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 I've had to do something similar, but the man pages I read lead me to doing it using MAKEDEV (heck knows why it's all caps). With just a quick perusal, I can't see whether MAKEDEV or mknod is the way to do these things (when you're not playing with udev rules). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.