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Richard Fish wrote: |
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> Looking through /sbin/rc, gentoo will disable udev if any of the |
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> following are true: |
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> 1. RC_DEVICES is set to "devfs". |
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> 2. The kernel command line contains "noudev". |
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> 3. The kernel version is less than 2.6.0. |
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> 4. /sbin/udev does not exist or is not an executable file |
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> 5. The file /dev/.devfsd exists. |
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> Since the first 3 definitely do not apply, and you seem to have |
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> emerged udev, my guess is you probably need to remove /dev/.devfsd to |
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> enable udev. |
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> -Richard |
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THANK YOU!!!! |
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#5 was the problem. Could not remove it with devfs in use, so booted to |
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the mode where |
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neither devfs nor udev were used, then deleted it. |
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The only other issue so for was X wouldn't start. Xorg.0.log showed |
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/dev/mouse not |
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found. Had to "ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse" and presto. |
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Onward to 2.6.13... |
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Again, |
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Thank you! |
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-Roy |
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