in README.Debian: - since modules are not loaded on demand, if you do not have a working hotplug package which can synthetize PCI hotplug events at boot time you will have to manually load all the drivers you need from /etc/modules. - some modules are not hardware drivers and cannot be loaded automatically by hotplug, so they will have to go in /etc/modules as well. - some drivers have not been ported to sysfs yet, and udev will not be able to create their devices. If you use one of these drivers you will have to create the devices after every boot.
In other words, on a typical system you may need to manually load (using /etc/modules) modules like rtc, 8250, ppp_generic, ide-cd, ppdev, loop and tun. Recent versions of hotplug can load some of these modules (check if /etc/hotplug/ide.rc and /etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc exist and CONFIG_ISAPNP is enabled in your kernel configuration), the others which do not depend on specific hardware devices may have to be loaded manually if you need them. Kernel support needed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The kernel must be not older than 2.6.8 and must support the hotplug subsystem (CONFIG_HOTPLUG) and tmpfs (CONFIG_TMPFS). nut i feel the worst was to purge devfsd before installing udev. udev take care of not breaking devfs but if you purge devfs before, you already broke a lot of things. do your fstab entries point to /dev/discs/* devices ? You need a few things told in the kernel docs, required when you migrate from 2.4 kernel. Check if you have done them if you are already on 2.6. for xterm like (and a few others) to work you need: none /dev/pts devpts mode=620 0 0 in fstab and it to be mounted. also, you have to create /sys and mount it, the fstab line is: none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 this help hotplug. and for the posix threads (not needed by udev but part of the kernel 2.6 migration): tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 and hotplug should be installed too. Alban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
