On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation on > getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't notice > right away fail to work until I do: > # udevstart > /dev/dsp is created with correct permissions and I'm good to go. The question > is: > How to I get udev to start at boot?
Udevstart doesn't actually start udevd...it just rescans the devices and recreates device nodes. The actual udev daemon is started by /sbin/rc, possibly via /lib/rc-scripts/add-ons/udev-start.sh depending upon your version of baselayout. Having RC_DEVICES=udev or auto should be sufficient to start udevd on startup. Setting dev=udev in grub.conf is not necessary, and probably won't change anything. Now for your missing device nodes, maybe you just need to do: rc-update -a coldplug default > kernel /bzImage-2.6.14-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda5 dev=udev > video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317 > > Also If you see why the boot complains about my video mode, feel free to > comment. 1. If you are using vesafb-tng, you cannot use vga= to set the video mode. It must be part of the video option like so: video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED],ywrap,mtrr 2. If you are not using vesafb-tng, you cannot use video=, so you should take out that option. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
