On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:05:06PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:07:00 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > > Or, as an alternative, *how* to switch to eudev (their web page does > > *not* have simple/precise instructions on how to switch, only a > > description of what it is) - ie, do I just emerge -C udev && emerge -C > > virtual/udev && emerge eudev? Or is there more to it? > > quickpkg udev && emerge -Ca udev && emerge -1a eudev
A bit more detail... *WARNING* do the following in sequence, quickly, and do *NOT* reboot until after step 7) 1) Optional fallback... quickpkg udev 2) Keyword sys-fs/eudev/eudev-1_beta2-r2 (~x86 or ~amd64 or whatever is correct for your machine) 3) Remove udev... emerge -Ca udev 4) Install eudev... emerge -1a eudev NOTE; eudev is a drop-in replacement for udev, and generates the same file names. With that in mind, the next 2 items make sense... 5) Stop the old udev demon and start the new one with the command... /etc/init.d/udev --nodeps restart 6) Do *NOT* remove virtual/udev and do *NOT* remove the udev service with rc-update 7) Follow any additional instructions you may get as ewarn messages or in /var/log/portage/elog -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
