On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:44:49 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Good luck with your /dev problems, and may the > > solutions be swift and > > painless ; ) > > > > -- Dan > > Thanks Dan. As it happens I went ahead and did a sync > followed by a deep portage update followed by deep > world update. Avg. download speed ~ 2.9k/s. Took about > 36hrs. Phew! Thankfully there was only 61 pkges to do. Ouch. > Now I'm looking for advice on setting up udev. A > message in one of the logs says to be sure and start > udev on boot but there's no such thing in the > /etc/init scripts. > > -mw As it so happens, I dug up http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml for someone on the forums having udev problems. You simply need to check for some pretty standard kernel options: |General setup ---> | [*] Support for hot-pluggable devices | |File systems ---> | Pseudo filesystems ---> | [*] /proc file system support | [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs) You probably want to build a 2.6.18, at least, kernel when you do this to update while you're at it, but i think 2.6.12 will work with udev too. You want to make sure _not_ to use devfs as udev replaces devfs. Then | emerge udev and you should be good to go -- no initscript necessary! I have never had to do anything else. Consult the afforementioned website if you have difficulties. Hope that gets things going !!! May your luck outlast your difficulties, - Dan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
