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 1NXKpN-0004fR-NK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:37:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ACFEE0CC2; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com (mail-yw0-f181.google.com [209.85.211.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF8EE0CC2 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so620716ywh.9 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:37:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y7vKs9HP9fk6vd4xeAgOVBqup5GgoyUJI0uEiHSrfYU=; b=TmHWKpF3o3OOFpYpPE7pmkXSzER84Zbjx2AO9pDlbjmtBfZxG2pELLTK9UMWtyDM5c 3t3ylm2WFETfckPZS8rjFMMyQ2kIYAjWIgBVLCtoDnJro10lGfdFkB/nVvTrzwsFQWOm Sm/FsD0xwEmkOdaA8vxvo/AiAMj/+AhfCo+xM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wXXFbodZdrYE9rC2OSSPsr4pBAG15q8ywrLVXviAVtg9JevA8OZFigjH0EdH0huep7 pLPl6pLvSAMMBmzg3tegWoVVT+8z7VZ96u6ZHPTygndhKATSfSfIxvg69kN/B9/xJf04 Weueh1/NYKwvHwXL9pXqB7ZZqGRrq2xL3dSoA= Received: by 10.150.87.4 with SMTP id k4mr8317499ybb.347.1263933437987; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:37:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-89-31.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.89.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm847614yxe.56.2010.01.19.12.37.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:37:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B5617FA.80303@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:37:14 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf References: <874omlpwg8.fsf@newsguy.com> <4B524639.6060905@coolmail.se> <87zl4cofqe.fsf@newsguy.com> <4B5371F8.8020008@coolmail.se> <87iqazo1tt.fsf@newsguy.com> <4B548BFC.8080209@gmail.com> <4B55FF38.9050708@coolmail.se> In-Reply-To: <4B55FF38.9050708@coolmail.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2956bab4-a8b6-41de-bdf7-8536fabc9c3a X-Archives-Hash: 34684313a190159ce1519997ba0765a9 pk wrote: > Dale wrote: > > >> I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you >> want, and can, to "force" it to do what you want. Thing is, the config >> file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't >> pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't use hal here so >> this is just info. >> > > As I understand it, Harry wished to control X output (i.e. the virtual > screen size). As far as I know, all configuration for _output_ devices > is done in xorg.conf. HAL (if one is so inclined ;-) takes care of the > _input_ devices... > > >> I'm not going to get started on hal folks. Just trying to point a >> little. Relax and breathe. >> > > Oh, please! I don't mind... ;-) > > Best regards > > Peter K > > You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as pissed as I was tho. lol I'm just not going to try putting it on here again. It didn't work. I couldn't configure the thing so that it would. I removed it. I better stop now. ;-) Dale :-) :-)