> > Since upgrading to 8.1, my machine has been unable to print through
a
> > CUPS server running on Mandrake 8.0. Thinking it might be version
> > mis-match, I upgraded that machine to 8.1 (losing its CDROM in the
> > process, but that's another story)
> >
>
> devfs story??? Wonder when will be an update available with out of the
box
> (actually out of rpm package) running cdrom, zip, ...
>
Apart from kernel bugs (like with ide-floppy) most so-called devfs
problems in 8.1 result from these lines in rc.sysinit:
if [ -d /lib/dev-state ]; then
cp -af /lib/dev-state/* /dev > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
You will need to add some devices to devfsd.conf then (like /dev/modem
link) but they are just a couple of them and ideally should be managed
by kudzu ond/or harddrake if it ever is born again.
That's said, currently devfs (as kernel module) seems to have real
problem, to the extent I had to disable it even to be able to boot
system. It is highly dependent on actual system configuration an dthere
may be some timing problem here because one (slow) system is much worse
than another (fast). But system lockup is there on both.
-andrej
