On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:04 -0600, Kunjan Shah wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:54:57 +1100, Norval Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ 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
