Section 4: special files
ibod.cf – configuration file for ibod (ISDN Bandwidth On Demand) Description This file contains the initial configuration values for the ibod daemon. Each line contains a keyword and a value. Boolean attributes are set with 0 or 1 which corresponds to false and true respectively. A boolean attribute not specified at all is always false….
i740 – Intel i740 video driver Synopsis Section N’34’DeviceN’34’ Identifier N’34’devnameN’34’ Driver N’34’i740N’34’ … EndSection Description i740 is an Xorg driver for Intel i740 video cards. Supported Hardware The i740 driver supports Intel 740 based cards. A list of cards reported to work is provided in the README file with the driver source. Configuration Details…
i128 – Number 9 I128 Xorg video driver Synopsis Section N’34’DeviceN’34’ Identifier N’34’devnameN’34’ Driver N’34’i128N’34’ … EndSection Description i128 is an Xorg driver for Number 9 I128 video cards. The driver is accelerated and provides support for all versions of the I128 chip family, including the SGI flatpanel configuration. Multi-head configurations are supported. Supported Hardware…
hunspell – format of Hunspell dictionaries and affix files Description Hunspell(1) Hunspell requires two files to define the way a language is being spell checked: a dictionary file containing words and applicable flags, and an affix file that specifies how these flags wil controll spell checking. An optional file is the personal dictionary file. Dictionary…
hpsa – HP Smart Array SCSI driver Synopsis modprobe hpsa [ hpsa_allow_any=1 ] Description hpsa is a SCSI driver for HP Smart Array RAID controllers. Options hpsa_allow_any=1: This option allows the driver to attempt to operate on any HP Smart Array hardware RAID controller, even if it is not explicitly known to the driver. This…
hd – MFM/IDE hard disk devices Description The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and…
glint – GLINT/Permedia video driver Synopsis Section N’34’DeviceN’34’ Identifier N’34’devnameN’34’ Driver N’34’glintN’34’ … EndSection Description glint is an Xorg driver for 3Dlabs & Texas Instruments GLINT/Permedia based video cards. The driver is rather fully accelerated, and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 15 (may give bad results with FBDev support), 16, 24 (32…
futex – Fast Userspace Locking Synopsis #include <linux/futex.h> Description The Linux kernel provides futexes ("Fast Userspace muTexes") as a building block for fast userspace locking and semaphores. Futexes are very basic and lend themselves well for building higher level locking abstractions such as POSIX mutexes. This page does not set out to document all design…
fuse – Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) device Synopsis #include <linux/fuse.h> Description This device is the primary interface between the FUSE filesystem driver and a user-space process wishing to provide the filesystem (referred to in the rest of this manual page as the filesystem daemon). This manual page is intended for those interested in understanding the…
full – always full device Configuration If your system does not have /dev/full created already, it can be created with the following commands: mknod -m 666 /dev/full c 1 7 chown root:root /dev/full Description The file /dev/full has major device number 1 and minor device number 7. Writes to the /dev/full device fail with an…
fpit – Fujitsu Stylistic input driver Synopsis Section N’34’InputDeviceN’34’ Identifier N’34’idevnameN’34’ Driver N’34’fpitN’34’ Option N’34’DeviceN’34’ N’34’devpathN’34’ … EndSection Description fpit is an Xorg input driver for Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet PCs. The fpit driver functions as a pointer input device, and may be used as the X server’s core pointer. Supported Hardware This driver supports the…
fifo – first-in first-out special file, named pipe Description A FIFO special file (a named pipe) is similar to a pipe, except that it is accessed as part of the file system. It can be opened by multiple processes for reading or writing. When processes are exchanging data via the FIFO, the kernel passes all…
fd – floppy disk device Configuration Floppy drives are block devices with major number 2. Typically they are owned by root.floppy (i.e., user root, group floppy) and have either mode 0660 (access checking via group membership) or mode 0666 (everybody has access). The minor numbers encode the device type, drive number, and controller number. For…
fbdevhw – os-specific submodule for framebuffer device access Description fbdevhw provides functions for talking to a framebuffer device. It is os-specific. It is a submodule used by other video drivers. A fbdevhw module is currently available for linux framebuffer devices. fbdev(4) is a non-accelerated driver which runs on top of the fbdevhw module. fbdevhw can…
fbdev – video driver for framebuffer device Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "fbdev" BusID "pci:bus:dev:func" … EndSection Description fbdev is an Xorg driver for framebuffer devices. This is a non-accelerated driver, the following framebuffer depths are supported: 8, 15, 16, 24. All visual types are supported for depth 8, and TrueColor visual is supported…
exa – new 2D acceleration architecture for X.Org Description EXA provides a simple API for video drivers to implement for 2D acceleration. It is a module loaded by drivers, and is not intended to be loaded on its own. See your driver’s manual page for how to enable EXA. The EXA architecture is designed to…
evdev – Generic Linux input driver Synopsis Section "InputDevice" Identifier "devname" Driver "evdev" Option "Device" "devpath" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" Option "GrabDevice" "False" … EndSection Description evdev is an Xorg input driver for Linux’s generic event devices. It therefore supports all input devices that the kernel knows about, including most mice, keyboards, tablets…
epoll – I/O event notification facility Synopsis #include <sys/epoll.h> Description epoll is a variant of poll(2) that can be used either as an edge-triggered or a level-triggered interface and scales well to large numbers of watched file descriptors. The following system calls are provided to create and manage an epoll instance: * An epoll instance…
elographics – Elographics input driver Synopsis Section N’34’InputDeviceN’34’ Identifier N’34’idevnameN’34’ Driver N’34’elographicsN’34’ Option N’34’DeviceN’34’ N’34’devpathN’34’ … EndSection Description elographics is an Xorg input driver for Elographics touchscreen devices. The elographics driver functions as a pointer input device, and may be used as the X server’s core pointer. Supported Hardware E271-2210 and E271-2200 devices are supported….
dsp56k – DSP56001 interface device Synopsis #include <asm/dsp56k.h> ssize_t read(int fd, void *data, size_t length); ssize_t write(int fd, void *data, size_t length); int ioctl(int fd, DSP56K_UPLOAD, struct dsp56k_upload *program); int ioctl(int fd, DSP56K_SET_TX_WSIZE, int wsize); int ioctl(int fd, DSP56K_SET_RX_WSIZE, int wsize); int ioctl(int fd, DSP56K_HOST_FLAGS, struct dsp56k_host_flags *flags); int ioctl(int fd, DSP56K_HOST_CMD, int cmd); Configuration…