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From: Vitor Hugo Nunes dos Santos <vitorhugo@××××××.io>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 without udev/eudev
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:52:28
Message-Id: 9ecaee8a-a94d-88c7-2021-a1210ff2fd63@teknik.io
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X11 without udev/eudev by karl@aspodata.se
1 On 8/21/21 5:17 PM, karl@××××××××.se wrote:
2 > With the demise of xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard,
3 > xf86-input-libinput is put forward as a replacement.
4 > But it (or rather libinput) has udev as a hard dependency.
5 >
6 > I have a ps2 keyboard and a 3-button serial mouse, so there is frankly
7 > no use for udev here, nor would it help anything except possible to mess
8 > up my preset dev directory. Also I have sys-fs/static, even if I install
9 > udev, it woun't start, and I don't need yet another deamon running
10 > doing nothing for me.
11 >
12 > Is there possible to resurrect the old drivers ?
13 > Or is there another way to solve this ?
14 >
15 > Regards,
16 > /Karl Hammar
17 >
18 >
19 >
20 Karl,
21
22 This should have some of the info you need
23 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Old_Fashioned_Gentoo_Install
24
25 Best regards,
26
27 Vitor Hugo

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