Armin K. wrote: > 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.
I guess that was my point. >> 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. Yes, I was using the evdev driver, but it was just an interesting academic exercise. I don't really need Xorg without udev. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
