From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7w6U-0004GW-EH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:51:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F44AE08A6; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6374CE0845 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:50:12 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE+4rw20/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5iHCeGYYZBJROhkuECQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="168028230" Received: from 184-175-13-180.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([184.175.13.180]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2012 17:50:11 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:49:39 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:49:39 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-( Message-ID: <20120314214939.GD32344@waltdnes.org> References: <20120313190052.GA2430@waltdnes.org> <20120313194727.GB2536@acm.acm> <20120313210737.GD2536@acm.acm> <20120313213330.78c5ebf7@digimed.co.uk> <20120313222019.GE2536@acm.acm> <20120313230358.GF2536@acm.acm> <20120314151620.GB24395@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120314151620.GB24395@acm.acm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 1df91b0e-8256-473c-bd41-8235b462aee9 X-Archives-Hash: 7c32225e6f8b79606ab005fbfe74d2c0 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:16:20PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote > There's a difference between "needed by portage" and "doesn't work under > mdev". As I say, it will all be moot if the evdev driver won't work > under mdev. I don't have x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev installed and my desktops work fine. Of course, I'm running ICEWM, not GNOME or KDE. -- Walter Dnes