Re: udev problems
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:46:15 +1100, Norval Watson <norv@longforest.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:04 -0600, Kunjan Shah wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:54:57 +1100, Norval Watson <norv@longforest.com> wrote:
> > > I have been experiencing a similar problem..
> > > I cannot install udev without losing x as described.
> > > I just did netinstall with sid from alioth and x is fine until udev is
> > > installed (ie. with gnome-desktop-environment). Then I get the problems
> > > described by Kunjan.
> > > I did aptitude purge udev, which took out gnome-desktop-environment with
> > > it and now my x display is working again.
> > > The only thing i could note from the install was that I chose to have my
> > > devices managed by discover when that option was presented.
> > > Season's Greetings,
> > > Norv
> > >
> >
> > Merry Christmas to all!
> >
> > Do you have a nividia display card?
> > if you do then you might have installed a custom kernel.
> > and for some reason even if u dont have the devfsd installed it will
> > still load up devfs
>
> scoop@pan64:/$ uname -a
> Linux pan64 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 #1 Sat Dec 4 23:16:23 CET 2004 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> Doesn't look like a custom kernel to me...
>
>
> >
> > what i did was reinstall everything and i didnt select any pacakge
> > from base-config instead i bailed out and installed udev first and
> > then fired up aptitude and installed other stuff.
>
> Sounds like a good workaround, I will try that if i get stuck
> Thanx for the tips
> Norv
its working so far for me except for some reason gnome keeps on locking up
and if the sound dont work then go root and do this
chmod +0666 /dev/dsp * ; chown root /dev/dsp*
and if that fixes the problem then change the permissions on /dev/dsp
in udev config files.
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