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 1Nem3V-0006ow-FX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:06:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A61D0E10B7 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C70E0FFE for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1289773eyg.40 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:25:59 -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:message-id; bh=Iwx1s9T2GNUag1tfbS8CCaD+STZ6nsD8KPZ+WL7C3q0=; b=p0jt809qNmWZRzBiD0W9Q+PQJapQkw+HjbwAKAbRGn8FjUzDLm1al8TQn6uJwK9rMf TgBJWulItwu46eC5xunVYL2Nb5gcQmUBr0R2K209UyplOQTazjf7cLtHci8U/MnBvx17 6tqrRHaSB4uYDfae9nEgrsGtEkzzZV1CqAjVg= 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:message-id; b=mVzSZV86dbGz8YtB0E9lGdQRTGhmqdplAxjF0fUu91DuobFeum2fn6BY+m+uv13h5B ynHiBGYbmdwC+5vG+1pWGwfGzwYiC+QXLIJPdI/gqr1NI8iYTmsl+6wuZyOCMsG/gG/O fYfNt+3DfzzUMYL4MeWMxywWtUlashD6TODac= Received: by 10.213.50.67 with SMTP id y3mr360857ebf.31.1265703959108; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:25:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm3689518ewy.2.2010.02.09.00.25.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:25:57 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:23:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> 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 Message-Id: <201002091023.49572.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 055858c0-a0f5-4d76-8564-fb256a2b7938 X-Archives-Hash: a3a0c2259877b4fea8e77e4815160250 On Tuesday 09 February 2010 00:20:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It > only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel > in a trial run. :-) > > However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. "The X Server > Configuration HOWTO", section 3. "Configuring Xorg" says: > > "Hal comes with many premade device rules, also called policies. > These policy files are available in /usr/....../policy. Just find a > few that suit your needs most closely and copy them to /etc/...." > > "For example, to get a basic working keyboard/mouse combination, you > could copy the following files... > /usr/.........../10-input-policy.fdi > /usr/.........../10-x11-input.fdi" > > . Am I the only person that finds this semantic gibberish? No, you are not the only one. There's a whole crowd of us here already, you can join our club. We even have a fearless leader and his name is Dale. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com