On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:58:00AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > 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.
Starting from the original (?debian) config file and adding things _one at a time_ might be a good idea. Making wholesale changes might work, but if, like this, it doesn't, it's pretty much impossible to guess which bit is to blame... -- /__ \_|\/ /\
