Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread mas
> Derek Piper wrote: > > You just explained my problems with 2.6.16.1. Since the mirrors in my > sources.list didn't have 2.6.16, I went to kernel.org and got the > source, compiled it and installed it. > > Since then, I've had a couple of hard lockups, a kernel panic, and a > register dump (comple

Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Derek Piper wrote: [...] I want to upgrade a couple of machines to kernel 2.6.16 Apparently you need a later version of udev than is in the debian stable branch (0.056). [...] :O You just explained my problems with 2.6.16.1. Since the mirrors in my sources.list didn't have 2.6.16, I went to

Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:54:44AM -0400, Derek Piper wrote: > > Hi, > > I apologise for the cross-posting and if this is not the right forum > in which to bring this up, but I'd like to ask this: *Why* does gnome > have > a dependency to udev? Can it not simply utilize the h

Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread Derek Piper
Hi, I apologise for the cross-posting and if this is not the right forum in which to bring this up, but I'd like to ask this: *Why* does gnome have a dependency to udev? Can it not simply utilize the hotplug features of udev if it exists and just use the regular /dev directory if not