Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread Derek Piper
Hi, I apologise for the cross-posting and if this is not the right forum in which to bring this up, but I'd like to ask this: *Why* does gnome have a dependency to udev? Can it not simply utilize the hotplug features of udev if it exists and just use the regular /dev directory if

Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:54:44AM -0400, Derek Piper wrote: Hi, I apologise for the cross-posting and if this is not the right forum in which to bring this up, but I'd like to ask this: *Why* does gnome have a dependency to udev? Can it not simply utilize the hotplug

Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Derek Piper wrote: [...] I want to upgrade a couple of machines to kernel 2.6.16 Apparently you need a later version of udev than is in the debian stable branch (0.056). [...] :O You just explained my problems with 2.6.16.1. Since the mirrors in my sources.list didn't have 2.6.16, I went to

Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread mas
Derek Piper wrote: You just explained my problems with 2.6.16.1. Since the mirrors in my sources.list didn't have 2.6.16, I went to kernel.org and got the source, compiled it and installed it. Since then, I've had a couple of hard lockups, a kernel panic, and a register dump (completed by