On 21.09.2012 04:00, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I was thinking about udev a bit and did an experiment. I disabled udev > and udev_retry from the boot process. The system came up just fine. >
Today, udev is necesary for hotplugging the devices and handling the modules/symlinks/device node ownership. Udev does not create nodes. devtmpfs does that nowadays. > The console worked, but I didn't try to disconnect or reconnect the > (usb) mouse or keyboard. > > I tried startxfce and the screen came up, but mouse and keyboard did not > work. > I guess you were using evdev driver which does use udev for finding mouse/keyboard devices. Try using -keyboard and -mouse input drivers. You'll need to configure them via xorg.conf iirc. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
