I have succeded installing X without udev on a old thinkpad running funtoo. I "just" removed references of udev from:
/usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.16.4-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev/xf86-input-evdev-2.9.2.ebuild and then running emerge --regen emerge packages above and a few others and added (in Section "ServerFlags"): Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" /// I did a similar thing on my test devaun box, something resembling: apt-get source xxx cd xxx removing refs. to udev from debian/[control,rules] fakeroot debian/rules binary cd .. dpkg -i xxx It doesn't work yet, maybe I have a too new video card or something with drm. I'll put the files on http://turkos.aspodata.se/computing/nonudev/ tomorrow (upload is slow) in case someone is interested. /// It seem the things "depending" on udev are mesa stuff and the main xserver. The mesa dependancy is minimal, just add --enable-sysfs to when configure'ing removes that. The xserver is using udev only (if I understand this correctly) for hotplugged input devices. if you only have a keybord and a mouse, you can disable this hotplugging whith the serverflag above and have inputdevice sections like (could possible be trimmed a bit): Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" # Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" # Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" # Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" Option "Protocol" "MouseMan" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto" # Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng