Re: Strange behaviour
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:58:00AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> From: "Olaf Meeuwissen" <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>
> > Matthew Guenther <guentherm@asme.org> writes:
> >
> > > I recently got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) and have installed
> testing
> > > on it and set up pretty much everything as I like it. However I've run
> into
> > > a problem that I haven't seen before which confounds all my attempts to
> sort
> > > it out.
> ...
> > > I compiled my own kernel (2.4.18) and tried some new options that I'd
> not
> > > used before such as devfs, ext3, alsa and hotplug support so I'm
> wondering
> > > if this could be a kernel problem. Anyone heard of something like this
> > > happening before?
> >
> > Err, you did read Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README, didn't you?
> > If not, recompile your kernel without devfs and I think your problems
> > will disappear.
> >
> > Using devfs takes a bit more than a CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y in your config.
>
> No kidding! And many of the errors you might find seem totally unlikely to
> be related to devfs. Whenever you compile a kernel with devfs, don't make
> ANY other changes to the config file until you know it's working.
Starting from the original (?debian) config file and adding things _one
at a time_ might be a good idea. Making wholesale changes might work,
but if, like this, it doesn't, it's pretty much impossible to guess
which bit is to blame...
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