Tim, Yes, basically correct. I didn't remove devfs, but I did change the opton to tell it not to mount at boot time. That was enough to get rid of some messages that said
error calling unlink in "GLOBAL" I still had one more problem. gdm wouldn't start since my xorg.conf file said /dev/mouse instead of /dev/input/mice. Once I made that last change everythign seemed to come up fine. Now to see if this gets me closer to fixing the permissions problem for ivtv. thanks! - Mark On 5/21/05, Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove devfs - > recompile and reboot. > > Job done, it should say using udev at bootup. > > Tim > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18 > > months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in > > portage so I can emerge that, but how do I tell the machine which to > > use? Is it automatic upon reboot? > > > > The machine has been updated to a new gentoo-sources. (2.6.11-gentoo-r9) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark > > > > -- > Tim Igoe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site > http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide > > "Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working!" > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
