From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NedZn-0000dg-On for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:03:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 646BAE0D1D for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au (mail2.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA387E09BA for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9364107405F for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:10:25 +0930 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail2.pcorp.com.au Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xGWsawS0aG0K; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:10:25 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (unknown [172.16.0.52]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1B8107405C for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:10:24 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:09:14 +0930 Message-ID: <1265672354.9561.46.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0aef297e-d65b-4aba-8947-6a7799cf0ea7 X-Archives-Hash: 47c48ed9e4b3ecd2b18b119a79892a6e On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:20 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! OH HAI! [snip to the crux:] > Can this new-style fragmented XML configuration do anything that a good > old-fashioned, human-readable and compact xorg.conf can't? If so, what? > What am I missing here? presumably you're missing the previous conversation on this topic: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/225223/focus=225223 > Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly > explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my > head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-) isn't it just done for you? $ slocate 10-input-policy.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi iain@orpheus ~ $ equery belongs /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi * Searching for /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi ... sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r2 (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi) so why are you copying these files by hand? -- Iain Buchanan A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem.