Hi, I have a Gentoo machine that used to run devfsd but was converted to udev to run MythTV. The conversion seemed to have worked fine. devfsd was disabled and a kernel built that used udev instead. The machine is using a development version of the ivtv driver not available yet from portage due to the PVR capture card choice. The driver was built and installed as per the included instructions. The machine was working fine. It continued to work after many reboots, etc., so everything was fine as far as I could tell.
Later, when doing a clean up on the world file, the command emerge -pv --depclean told me that it wanted to remove devfsd. I didn't do it at first but later decided to let it remove devfsd in favor of depending on udev. At first it appeared that there were no problems but recently it seems that the ivtv driver is not loading correctly at boot time. The driver is loaded and I do not see any error messages but when attempting to capture video I get bad audio and a blue screen. After doing an rmmod ivtv && modprobe ivtv both the audio and video are perfect. My question is whether the emerge -C devfsd has somehow caused this misoperation or is it more likely that some other update has caused this problem? I have tried re-emerging devfsd and also re-emerging udev but nothing I do so far seems to get it back to where it was. I really do not understand how udev works other than there are some rules that create devices. Is it possible that with udev the required v4l devices are somehow not created and the driver install at boot time doesn't find what it needs thus causing this problem? I hope someone can help shed some light on this. Let me know what sort of info might help about the machine. It's a fully up to date mostly non-~x86 box running 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 and is an Nforce-2 MB. It's been up and running Gentoo since it's birth almost 2 years ago. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
