On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:48, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:55, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish > > to > > > > write: > > > Having RC_DEVICES=udev or auto should be sufficient to start udevd on > > > startup. Setting dev=udev in grub.conf is not necessary, and probably > > > won't change anything. > > > > Having RC_DEVICES=udev or auto Changed from auto to udev no joy. > > > > Where?? > > Sorry: /etc/conf.d/rc. > > > > Now for your missing device nodes, maybe you just need to do: > > > > > > rc-update -a coldplug default > > > > moved coldplug from boot to default no joy > > Is /dev/dsp actually missing on startup, or just created with the > wrong permissions?
Apparently it has the wrong permissions, or so says the message when I start KDE,but if I reset them, next boot they are changed. Either resetting permissions, or doing # udevstart allows me to use /dev/dsp as user but changes don't survive a reboot. > > Are you using a device tarball (RC_DEVICE_TARBALL in /etc/conf.d/rc)? Yes. I've tried to read up on udev. but I guess I'm pretty thick headed. I do appreciate the hand holding. > > -Richard -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 23:46:51 up 5 min, 2 users, load average: 0.47, 0.60, 0.28 Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list