On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:55, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > 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.
via /lib/rc-scripts/add-ons/ contains devfs start and stop and udev start and stop scripts. /sbin/rc looks right > > 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. Having RC_DEVICES=udev or auto Where?? > > Now for your missing device nodes, maybe you just need to do: > > rc-update -a coldplug default moved coldplug from boot to default no joy > > > 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 Thanks that did it > > 2. If you are not using vesafb-tng, you cannot use video=, so you > should take out that option. > > -Richard -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 22:27:31 up 4 min, 2 users, load average: 2.34, 0.91, 0.36 Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list