From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:17:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904071317.21216.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <grfbrt$f88$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > [...]
> > but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier'
> > they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? well, bad luck,
> > because hal's files are a bitch to deal with.
>
> I suppose the intention was for GUI tools to do the configuration, but
> as usual in Linux (:P) no one bothered because that would mean people
> won't learn.
>
> So be happy. You're learning how HAL syntax works. That's good for
> you. No? ;-)
<tongue_in_cheek>
Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like
Driver "evdev"
with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deviceinfo
version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities"
contains="input.keys"><merge key="input.x11_driver"
type="string">keyboard</merge><match
key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux"><merge key="input.x11_driver"
type="string">evdev</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo>
Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? I
mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal files?
</tongue_in_cheek>
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-07 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-07 8:39 [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 Mick
2009-04-07 8:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 10:26 ` Mick
2009-04-07 10:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 11:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-07 11:17 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-04-07 11:25 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-08 15:01 ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2009-05-15 15:55 ` Tony Davison
2009-05-16 16:33 ` Mick
2009-04-07 13:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-04-07 10:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-04-07 9:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-04-07 10:34 ` Mick
2009-04-07 10:21 ` Khanh Nguyen
2009-04-07 14:14 ` sean
2009-04-07 14:51 ` Paul Hartman
2009-04-07 15:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 15:50 ` Paul Hartman
2009-04-07 16:31 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 18:12 ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-04-08 15:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2009-04-08 16:12 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-08 16:18 ` Paul Hartman
2009-05-15 16:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-15 16:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-15 16:41 ` Dale
2009-05-15 16:59 ` Paul Hartman
2009-05-15 17:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-15 17:42 ` Dale
2009-05-15 16:42 ` Dale
2009-05-15 16:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-15 17:45 ` Dale
2009-05-15 20:05 ` pk
2009-05-15 20:24 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-15 20:38 ` Aaron Clark
2009-05-15 20:39 ` Mark Knecht
2009-05-15 20:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-05-15 20:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-15 20:51 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-05-15 20:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-16 17:14 ` pk
2009-05-16 17:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-16 18:10 ` Dale
2009-05-17 17:10 ` bn
2009-05-17 18:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-17 18:16 ` Mark Knecht
2009-05-17 19:12 ` Dale
2009-05-17 19:22 ` Mark Knecht
2009-05-17 21:20 ` Dale
2009-05-18 4:07 ` was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers Adam Carter
2009-05-18 4:22 ` Dale
2009-05-18 5:00 ` Adam Carter
2009-05-17 18:21 ` [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 bn
2009-05-17 19:02 ` Dale
2009-05-17 1:33 ` pk
2009-05-17 9:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-17 12:15 ` pk
2009-05-17 14:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-17 21:47 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 15:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Joseph
2009-04-07 16:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-04-07 16:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-07 23:13 ` [gentoo-user] " sean
2009-04-08 18:16 ` pk
2009-04-07 16:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-07 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2009-04-07 17:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 17:21 ` Mick
2009-04-07 20:27 ` sean
2009-04-07 20:32 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 17:05 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-04-07 17:17 ` Mick
2009-04-07 20:37 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-04-08 5:47 ` Mick
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