diff --git a/xorg-x11-server.changes b/xorg-x11-server.changes
index 177d694..126ad89 100644
--- a/xorg-x11-server.changes
+++ b/xorg-x11-server.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 24 17:05:53 CET 2010 - sndirsch@suse.de
+
+- disabled udev support for openSUSE <= 11.2 (bnc #589997) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 24 02:37:56 CET 2010 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/xorg-x11-server.spec b/xorg-x11-server.spec
index 1834871..5f98ede 100644
--- a/xorg-x11-server.spec
+++ b/xorg-x11-server.spec
@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ Name:           xorg-x11-server
 ### FIXME
 %define vnc 1
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel bison flex fontconfig-devel freetype2-devel ghostscript-library libdrm-devel libopenssl-devel pkgconfig xorg-x11 xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-libICE-devel xorg-x11-libSM-devel xorg-x11-libX11-devel xorg-x11-libXau-devel xorg-x11-libXdmcp-devel xorg-x11-libXext-devel xorg-x11-libXfixes-devel xorg-x11-libXmu-devel xorg-x11-libXp-devel xorg-x11-libXpm-devel xorg-x11-libXprintUtil-devel xorg-x11-libXrender-devel xorg-x11-libXt-devel xorg-x11-libXv-devel xorg-x11-libfontenc-devel xorg-x11-libxkbfile-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel xorg-x11-xtrans-devel xorg-x11-fonts-devel
-### udev support
+### udev support (broken on openSUSE 11.2, see also bnc #589997)
+%if %suse_version > 1120
 BuildRequires:  libudev-devel
+%endif
 %if %vnc
 BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 %endif
@@ -306,7 +308,9 @@ autoreconf -fi
             --disable-xprint \
             --enable-record \
             --enable-xcsecurity \
+%if %suse_version > 1120
 	    --enable-config-udev \
+%endif
             --with-log-dir="/var/log" \
             --with-os-name="openSUSE" \
             --with-os-vendor="SUSE LINUX" \