On 08/15/2016 09:36 AM, fsmithred wrote:
> On 08/14/2016 08:12 PM, aitor wrote:
>>
>> Hi fsmithred,
>>
>> On 08/15/2016 12:36 AM, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
>>> richard lucassen wrote on 15/08/16 06:49:
>>>>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 15:09:54 -0400
>>>>> fsmithred<fsmithred@???> wrote:
>>>>>

>>>>>>> Moved /etc/vdev/vdev (a symlink) up one level -
>>>>>>>     I don't think that changed anything.

>>>>>
>>>>> It should be at /etc/vdev
>>>>>

>>>>>>> Changed pid file to /run/vdevd.pid -
>>>>>>>     fdisk now shows the removable drive, I can mount and unmount it.
>>>>>>>     mouse still doesn't work.
>>>>>>>     vdev still fails at boot, but if I start it after logging in,
>>>>>>>     it starts without error.

>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, that worked for me and Ralph IIRC. I don't have the Devuan machine
>>> Oops. I completely forgot about the required edits of
>>> /usr/etc/vdev/vdevd.conf which is present in the snapshot but not in the
>>> debs. I've added:
>>>
>>> cp {vdev-snapshot,}/usr/etc/vdev/vdevd.conf
>>>
>>> to the script. My apologies.
>>>
>>> Ralph.
>>
>> The content of the /root/vdev-initramfs is for regenerating the
>> initrd.img; this is the reason why our keayboard and mouses still haven't
>> control. Jude Nelson wrote:
>>
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>>
>> /NOTE: These instructions are Debian- and Devuan-specific, and very
>> hacky. Use at your own risk.//
>> //
>> //WARNING: Readers are expected to know how to fix a broken initramfs and
>> a broken bootsystem if they try this.//
>> //
>> //Running `make && sudo make install` will get you most of the way towards
>> installing vdev.//
>> //But to use it, you will need to disable udev,//
>> //enable vdev, and rebuild your initramfs to include vdev instead of udev.//
>> //
>> //On Debian and most Debian-derived distributions,//
>> //it is possible to generate an initramfs image with this command://
>> //
>> //$ cd example/ && make initramfs//
>> //
>> //This will generate an initramfs image in `example/`, which can be
>> installed with your bootloader of choice.//
>> //
>> //To enable vdev and disable udev in the init system, the command is //
>> //
>> //$ cd example/ && make install-initscript//
>> //
>> //I'm still working on the packaging scripts that will do all of this
>> automatically./
>>
>> _______________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm working on that. Now i have a computer rebuilding the packages of
>> linux-libre-4.6.2 with libudeb-compat-dev instead of libudev-dev, and i
>> also rebuilt initramfs-tools [*]
>>
>> Hope it works :)
>>
>> Aitor.
>>
>> [*] You can generate the initrd.img running the
>> /root/vdev-initramfs/tools/mkinitramfs of the snapshot sent by Ralph.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> :) :) :)
> In the words of the apache foundation... It works!
> Congrats to all those who did the work.
>
> I made a new installation of devuan to start over.
>
> I got an error from the latest make-initramfs.sh about a missing
> /root/vdev-initramfs. The actual location of the script is in
> /root/vdev-snapshot/root/vdev-initramfs/tools, so I made a symlink:
> ln -s /root/vdev-snapshot/root/vdev-initramfs /root/vdev-initramfs
>
> Mouse and keyboard now work in X, removable drives can be
> mounted/unmounted. I'm going to test the scanner next. Can't test my
> printer now, because there's no parallel port on this laptop.
>
> What else should be tested?
>
> -fsr
>

More testing:

Scanner (ScanMaker 4800) is not found by xsane. If I boot with udev
instead of vdev, scanner works normally.

I installed live-boot, live-config, live-boot-initramfs-tools,
live-config-sysvinit, and at the end of the installation, when it tried to
run update-initramfs, it failed. I forget what the error was.
Note: I did not install live-tools, which diverts update-initramfs.
Then I went back into /root/vdev-initramfs-tools and ran make-initramfs.sh
again, and the live-* stuff got incorporated. I expect I'll be making a
live iso later today.

-fsr