From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:33:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a1001180933j2ade78bdx7beb9869a4fbc7aa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqazo1tt.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> pk <peterk2@coolmail.se> writes:
>
>> Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>>> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are
>>> custom settings regarding the X session done?
>>
>> Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old
>> xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/
>
> OK, let me try this once more:
>
> Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed
> and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present.
>
> But yet an X display happens when I type `startx', apparently
> generated somewhere automatically.
>
> What I'm asking is where does one make customizations to that auto
> generated process... something is doing it.. some file or something is
> involved... but what and where?
Check the X log file to see what it's doing automatically. If you're
unhappy with its automatic choices you can then edit or create the
policy files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to make it behave the way you
want. Figuring out exactly how and where to make those changes is the
hard part... Googling your specific needs will usually come up with an
example from somewhere out there.
Also see the Gentoo Xorg 1.5 upgrade guide for some more info:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml
Good luck :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-18 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-16 21:32 [gentoo-user] About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf Harry Putnam
2010-01-16 22:55 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-01-18 15:36 ` Harry Putnam
2010-01-16 23:05 ` [gentoo-user] " pk
2010-01-17 16:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-01-17 20:24 ` pk
2010-01-18 15:43 ` Harry Putnam
2010-01-18 16:27 ` Dale
2010-01-19 18:51 ` pk
2010-01-19 20:37 ` Dale
2010-01-19 20:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-19 22:31 ` Dale
2010-01-20 0:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-20 2:53 ` Dale
2010-01-21 21:02 ` pk
2010-01-18 17:17 ` pk
2010-01-18 17:33 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2010-01-19 0:22 ` Neil Bothwick
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