udev

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Aug 9 20:57:47 UTC 2007


Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:24 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     After re-booting I checked and indeed it has the parallel port 
>> problem solved. Observe:
>>
>> [karl at k5di ~]$ ls /dev/lp*
>> /dev/lp0  /dev/lp1  /dev/lp2  /dev/lp3
>> [karl at k5di ~]$
>>
>> This is better than the old udev.
>>
>>     Yes and the printer still works. Good job somebody!
>>
>>     Now to get the new kernel(s) and see how they co-exist with this 
>> udev. I had to get to where the yum would let me have a kernel. Then I 
>> d/l the kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 which didn't work at ALL with the older 
>> udev but it booted up and I found that my USB things are now working 
>> just fine. The gmfsk I like is still working fine.
>>
>>     The only thing still not working is Skype. It works with the old 
>> kerenel and the new udev, but not with the new kernel. Skype is kind of 
>> a problem anyway, so not a bad problem.
>>     
>
> That's odd.  I have Skype on four different 64-bit machines and two
> versions of Fedora 64-bit (one Opteron/FC6, one Athlon X2/FC6, one
> Opteron/F7 and one Xeon DuoCore/F7).  All machines are fully updated
> (F7 machines have the -41 kernel and latest udev) and Skype works just
> fine on all once you sort out which switches to enable in Alsa.
>
> Note that I have the 1.4.0.99-fc5.i586 version of Skype installed
    I got my Skype from their web page and it was the one for f7 but it 
stopped working with this new kernel. I gather you yum installed the one 
your using and I will try to do the same.

>  (yes,
> an i586 package on 64-bit machines running 64-bit Fedora).  The older
> versions did have issues.  In my case, the mic was muted after hanging
> up a call requiring Skype to be restarted.  A minor annoyance as I
> rarely made one call after another on Skype.  The new version doesn't
> have this issue (at least for me).
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer             rstevens at internap.com -
> - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc.                http://www.internap.com -
> -                                                                    -
> -    I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it!      -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 	Sure good to see the udev and kernel guys get together :-) 



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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