Ralph Loizzo wrote: > Okay. I've been able to set my laptop's screen brighter by working > with the program spicctrl and the sonypi device. > > <SNIP!> > > My questions are: > > Why do I have to recreate the device every time? Shouldn't it be > there every time? Ralph, If you are running CentOS 4, I believe CentOS 4 uses udev to create device files at boot. This is a new feature of the 2.6 kernel. This way the devices in the /dev directory should only represent what is present on the machine as opposed to having 1000s of device files to account for every last possibility. I believe the configuration is handled in /etc/udev, but you should look at the udev man page to make sure. I seem to recall that there was a way to configure udev to "keep" certain device files. I wish I had more information for you. The last time I configured dynamic device files it was with devfs, which was an earlier attempt at the same functionality. Hope this helps, Shawn M. Jones