On Sunday 13 March 2005 03:13, SnapafunFrank wrote: > I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same time, > but how do I stop devfs ? > > Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at start > up, but still it runs. > > Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs are the same thing ~ > anyone ? >
> If so, then how do I turn devfs off and have it stay off through reboots > ? ( It must be a simple edit of some file but I'm unaware of which one.) > > And of course the 'insight' question. Any ideas of the effect of leaving > devfs turned off ? > If you installed Mdk 10.1 as a fresh install then it will have installed udev. If you upgraded from a preevious release it could still be using devfsd. devfs and udev are mutually exclusive udev will not run if devfs is running. To stop devfs running then edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza edit the 'append' line to include the option devfs=nomount Then run 'lilo -v' to write the config to the boot sector, then reboot. You can completely remove devfsd with urpme devfsd. Both udev and devfsd create the 'nodes' in /dev for your drivers to connect to. In my experience udev is considerably better than devfsd because it does not suffer the long delay when logging on I had with devfsd. There may be some hardware that devfs works with better than udev, the only one I have found myself is 'lirc' the Linux Infra Red receiver driver, but unless you have a specific problem I would advise using udev. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ____________________________________________________
