From: "Olaf Meeuwissen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Matthew Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recently got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) and have installed testing > > on it and set up pretty much everything as I like it. However I've run into > > a problem that I haven't seen before which confounds all my attempts to sort > > it out. ... > > I compiled my own kernel (2.4.18) and tried some new options that I'd not > > used before such as devfs, ext3, alsa and hotplug support so I'm wondering > > if this could be a kernel problem. Anyone heard of something like this > > happening before? > > Err, you did read Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README, didn't you? > If not, recompile your kernel without devfs and I think your problems > will disappear. > > Using devfs takes a bit more than a CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y in your config.
No kidding! And many of the errors you might find seem totally unlikely to be related to devfs. Whenever you compile a kernel with devfs, don't make ANY other changes to the config file until you know it's working. -- derek
