From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUy2g-0002cY-89 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:48:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18301E0511; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f14.google.com (mail-ew0-f14.google.com [209.85.219.14]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA02E0511 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so86806ewy.10 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:48:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=5PqESQLMUXp9yeEMAE2i7jVShxbMYyxqFYeebGOmIOQ=; b=DIa4py6CXpzpdkOtYqWEOOlzcoxbpuCK/9tlx3BHuwAvvyEtcVbsV5T+ZCipr914NH yXlAkWixT+kyESk8OJGbV/HUghVZt7yW+RFJ+0rX/yys7Fn2asGv8pXwiXGzNrnx5tLi 6ihQTUrxbiBe94YiHlaMy3eZKb3KD2F0Aed2k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=DoHGBNfRNVM9TIXkWw6x9ns7152YMjF4Ygorc8yKvdkvZ6HYVFKk4rYq1pBOpHU/i8 EYPwBbW3eTLnP6Z1q/pH2y0u4Q5EmX3O6WCSrXymZrYLTGbroaNomHibNNVW4S1ev6+Q 38+MDEXeRp0ey537PYUXxqUfdm15bHesl0w18= Received: by 10.210.19.7 with SMTP id 7mr110882ebs.145.1233816532308; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.20.0.5? (196-210-140-105-wblv-esr-3.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.105]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm238664gvf.12.2009.02.04.22.48.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:48:51 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:47:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <84250c9c0902040129m4445da3eu2c4eb82a932f06e5@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0902041405u493f1e68wdcc74a104fad2b35@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0902041405u493f1e68wdcc74a104fad2b35@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902050847.45840.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 00278a22-e568-49a1-b5bd-d946541c1070 X-Archives-Hash: 35d507c6f4428e55701cb2d229f47b76 On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote: > Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my > xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in > xorg.conf at all these days? Fonts are complicated :-) IIRC, the older bit mapped X fonts go in xorg.conf The newer ttf fonts are better handled by fontconfig. This gives you the questionable benefit of replacing a somewhat-hard-to-read xorg.conf with an impossible-to-read XML file. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com