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Newbie at Linux Kernel programming!
Post 302345642 by rohitrajjain on Wednesday 19th of August 2009 08:35:40 PM
08-19-2009
Newbie at Linux Kernel programming!
Hi Friends,
This is my first ever post on this forum. I am a new user in the Linux field. Although, I have been working for sometime with CentOS at my work, I would consider myself an amateur only in this field.
The way file system works in linux and the reason its open-source, has really aroused my interest greatly in it. I am planning to start to learn kernel hacking and shell scripting. I have been doing my research and have few questions before i move on with it.
I have managed an extra laptop just for my linux learning and it has good configuration to support all the linux distros. I am planning to use Fedora distro to start with it. I just wanted to know if its a good idea to start off with fedora. I am more interested in learning linux from command line and shell, so is fedora a good choice ?
Also, how about using freeBSD in UNIX. I read somewhere that its very stable and also very good for learning command line and scripting concepts ?
I read previous posts and found that every distro has its own advantages and disadvantages particular to users, i just wanted to figure out the best options in my case, where i want to be good with command line, scripting and kernel level programming and configurations.
I would be really grateful if anyone can help me !!!
Thanks
Rohit
This is my first ever post on this forum. I am a new user in the Linux field. Although, I have been working for sometime with CentOS at my work, I would consider myself an amateur only in this field.
The way file system works in linux and the reason its open-source, has really aroused my interest greatly in it. I am planning to start to learn kernel hacking and shell scripting. I have been doing my research and have few questions before i move on with it.
I have managed an extra laptop just for my linux learning and it has good configuration to support all the linux distros. I am planning to use Fedora distro to start with it. I just wanted to know if its a good idea to start off with fedora. I am more interested in learning linux from command line and shell, so is fedora a good choice ?
Also, how about using freeBSD in UNIX. I read somewhere that its very stable and also very good for learning command line and scripting concepts ?
I read previous posts and found that every distro has its own advantages and disadvantages particular to users, i just wanted to figure out the best options in my case, where i want to be good with command line, scripting and kernel level programming and configurations.
I would be really grateful if anyone can help me !!!
Thanks
Rohit
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uep
UEP(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual UEP(4) NAME
uep -- eGalax touchscreen driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines into your kernel configuration file: device uep device usb Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): uep_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The uep driver provides support for the eGalax onscreen touch panels. The driver is stub. It just probes and attaches to USB device, creates device entry and feeds reassembled packets from the hardware to it. To get mouse working in X(7), one needs to install ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax. FILES
uep creates a blocking pseudo-device file, /dev/uep0. SEE ALSO
usb(4), loader.conf(5), xorg.conf(5) (ports/x11/xorg), egalax(4) (ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-egalax). AUTHORS
The uep driver was written by Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>. BUGS
uep can't act like sysmouse(4), since the latter does not support absolute motion events. BSD
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