On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:09 -0500, 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. > > But everytime I boot, I login under my username then have to do the > following every time... > First I go into the bash terminal, then su because I can't do this under > my login name > > mknod /dev/sonypi c 10 250 #because sonypi is not listed in /dev - it > disappears everytime I shut down > > then I type > > chmod o+w sonypi #because I want to be able under my login name, not > root, to set the brightness > > then i exit su > > and type spicctrl --setbrightness=150 > > and it works... > > My questions are: > > Why do I have to recreate the device every time? Shouldn't it be there > every time? > > Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Ralph- Take a look at the files in /etc/makedev.d I think you can do something like create a file in /etc/makedev.d called sonypi, with the following contents. c $CONSOLE 10 250 1 1 sonypi Sean