[gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Budd, Tracy]

Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect "The Gentoo
system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not
support DEVFS or UDEV..." I have included all of the appropriate kernel
options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyone have
some hints as to why I might be getting this?
TIA,
-Tracy


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Roy Wright]

Budd, Tracy wrote:

>Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect "The Gentoo
>system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not
>support DEVFS or UDEV..." I have included all of the appropriate kernel
>options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyone have
>some hints as to why I might be getting this?
>TIA,
>-Tracy
>
>
>  
>
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/142671/match=new+kernel+udev

#5 was my problem...

Have fun,
Roy
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RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Budd, Tracy]

Roy,
Thank you for your quick response. I am sure that #5 applies (as I have
seen another message to that effect). I am not sitting at the machine
now, but I will give this a try tonight. I love this forum! Thanks
again.
-Tracy

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Wright  
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:52 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV
message

Budd, Tracy wrote:

>Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect "The 
>Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system 
>does not support DEVFS or UDEV..." I have included all of the 
>appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the 
>Handbook. Anyone have some hints as to why I might be getting this?
>TIA,
>-Tracy
>
>
>  
>
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/142671/match=new+kernel
+udev

#5 was my problem...

Have fun,
Roy
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Richard Fish]

Budd, Tracy wrote:

>Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am getting
>an
>X windows error. "... Screens found but none have a usable
>configuration."
>I tried re-emerging nvidia-kernel, and loading nvidia with modprobe
>prior
>to startx, but that didn't solve the problem. 
>Any other ideas?
>TIA
>-Tracy
>  
>

Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  If you need more help, post it here.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Roy Wright]

One word.  mouse

You probably need to change /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice
in xorg.conf.

HTH,
Roy

Richard Fish wrote:

> Budd, Tracy wrote:
>
>> Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am getting
>> an
>> X windows error. "... Screens found but none have a usable
>> configuration."
>> I tried re-emerging nvidia-kernel, and loading nvidia with modprobe
>> prior
>> to startx, but that didn't solve the problem. Any other ideas?
>> TIA
>> -Tracy
>>  
>>
>
> Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  If you need more help, post it here.
>
> -Richard
>
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RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Budd, Tracy]

Roy,
I changed /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice as you suggested. No luck.
I checked the Xorg.0.log. The only error message there was
"Failed to initialize NVIDIA kernel module."
I forgot to check dmesg.
I am wondering if I need to use mknod. Eventhough the nvidia module
seems to
load (lsmod confirms this), I cannot find any entries in /dev for
nvidia.
Any help is appreciated.
TIA
-tracy 

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Wright 
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:07 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV
message

One word.  mouse

You probably need to change /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf.

HTH,
Roy

Richard Fish wrote:

> Budd, Tracy wrote:
>
>> Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am 
>> getting an X windows error. "... Screens found but none have a usable

>> configuration."
>> I tried re-emerging nvidia-kernel, and loading nvidia with modprobe 
>> prior to startx, but that didn't solve the problem. Any other ideas?
>> TIA
>> -Tracy
>>  
>>
>
> Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  If you need more help, post it
here.
>
> -Richard
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Roy Wright]

Howdy,

You might want to try module-rebuild (see this week's
Gentoo Linux Newsletter - http://www.gentoo.org).

Basically:

  emerge module-rebuild
  module-rebuild list
  module-rebuild rebuild

That should make sure all kernel modules are built.

I did not hit this problem when I switched to udev.
I am using nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676.

Here's some other suggests I found via google:

verify xorg.conf:
  Section "Device"
     Driver "nvidia"

modprobe nvidia
modprobe vgahw
X --probeonly


HTH,
Roy

Budd, Tracy wrote:

>Roy,
>I changed /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice as you suggested. No luck.
>I checked the Xorg.0.log. The only error message there was
>"Failed to initialize NVIDIA kernel module."
>I forgot to check dmesg.
>I am wondering if I need to use mknod. Eventhough the nvidia module
>seems to
>load (lsmod confirms this), I cannot find any entries in /dev for
>nvidia.
>Any help is appreciated.
>TIA
>-tracy 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Roy Wright 
>Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:07 PM
>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV
>message
>
>One word.  mouse
>
>You probably need to change /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf.
>
>HTH,
>Roy
>
>Richard Fish wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Budd, Tracy wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am 
>>>getting an X windows error. "... Screens found but none have a usable
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>>configuration."
>>>I tried re-emerging nvidia-kernel, and loading nvidia with modprobe 
>>>prior to startx, but that didn't solve the problem. Any other ideas?
>>>TIA
>>>-Tracy
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  If you need more help, post it
>>    
>>
>here.
>  
>
>>-Richard
>>
>>    
>>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:43:27 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote:

> I checked the Xorg.0.log. The only error message there was
> "Failed to initialize NVIDIA kernel module."
> I forgot to check dmesg.
> I am wondering if I need to use mknod. Eventhough the nvidia module
> seems to
> load (lsmod confirms this), I cannot find any entries in /dev for
> nvidia.

You need these lines in /etc/modules.d/nvidia

# Nvidia drivers support
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195

Then run modules-update


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RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Budd, Tracy]

I used mknod in local.start. That seems to have fixed the problem.
Side note: a 2.1.11 kernel that I had lying around created the devices
correctly. I only had to do this for 2.1.13.

Thank you all.
-Tracy

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Bothwick 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:46 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV
message

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:43:27 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote:

> I checked the Xorg.0.log. The only error message there was "Failed to 
> initialize NVIDIA kernel module."
> I forgot to check dmesg.
> I am wondering if I need to use mknod. Eventhough the nvidia module 
> seems to load (lsmod confirms this), I cannot find any entries in /dev

> for nvidia.

You need these lines in /etc/modules.d/nvidia

# Nvidia drivers support
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195

Then run modules-update


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:46:11 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote:

> I used mknod in local.start.

The only problem with that is that the devices are created well after
the module is loaded. With the settings in /etc/modules.d/nvidia, which
is part of the nvidia-kernel package, the devices are created immediately.



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