[Peeweelinux] success! thanks all

[Ken Emmons, Jr.]

Hello,

Use the rc.init scripts, they get run as root before running the login stuff. I'm using this to create some devices and load some driver modules, and it works great. I don't know why the scripts you tried didn't work, but in my "custom/etc/rcS.d" folder, I have a script called "99init_sys" that gets run fine. Make sure to have #!/bin/sh at the top of your script and all that fun stuff, and it should work out nicely. 

~Ken



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashley Rolleston [mailto:ashley@smartsw.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:01 AM
> To: peeweelinux@adis.on.ca
> Subject: [Peeweelinux] success! thanks all
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Well my peeweelinux project is now all but finished. It's 
> looking great,
> using peeweelinux with bootx and an updated kernel, an 800x600 TFT +
> touchscreen on a SBC. All my net drivers and touchscreen drivers are
> working, although I had to revert to standard vesa framebuffer drivers
> together with the XF86_FBDev X server because of a problem 
> with my hardware
> configuration and the SiS drivers for my particular 
> graphics/lcd setup.
> 
> Together with Netscape and the Flash 5 plug-in this will be 
> used as an easy
> to use interface for other hardware (flash still leaves a bad 
> taste in my
> mouth though...)
> 
> I have one last question on my configuration. I need a driver 
> program in
> /usr/bin to run automatically on startup before startx is called. This
> driver creates some custom devices in /dev and it appears to 
> need to be ran
> as root. I have tried adding the program to .bashrc in 
> /home/autologin but
> this doesn't work. I have also tried creating /etc/rc.local , 
> and trying
> rc.sysinit.
> 
> At the moment the only way is to stop autologin running 
> startx, and manually
> 'su root' then run the driver program and then exit the root 
> shell and run
> startx manually...
> 
> Where can I specify in the startup scripts to run this process ?
> 
> Thanks for all your help, I will remain subscribed to this 
> list in case I
> can help anyone else with the experience I have had.
> 
> Ashley Rolleston
> Software Engineer
> ashley AT smartsw DOT co DOT uk
> 
> 
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