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 1NeeVh-00075R-On for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:03:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCC42E1118 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f195.google.com (mail-pz0-f195.google.com [209.85.222.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82F0E127D for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so4481609pzk.2 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:19:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QI2aMIrZWMt4epbTX4mq/x5jSJ7kFnXlXtr+TY8jBlM=; b=tKkN4QvQL7nTr7CUjo/Ywriw6uSyysAK4x9aT1FgHtwhArxeykoc9j5YCisOdlnNLc mXrdJjDz4cnKI3w8tytUi4f8KBehRIg57pcuZTHALdmygJjCaS4AEnzJBXbzlPrbitT6 5AvqDuSo2+B9BSsH2HuHQVEw9SI6HFrQHucGY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=H/FEubNJYTRx8+EZIQIUlUQ8uxE1JJactQFehRmtW6Y7EcOG7vaTpTX70ulUQgwCbE Mgtqa1yoryRutNru5vuZeTaJKYNpfHQeMr/Mq3sS0ez0CA5qRYoItOIbtuaiGyr8NfzZ gmQ/4iD3r4mT/5nvMwfErstwyBL2VDm2/1DpU= 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 Received: by 10.142.55.8 with SMTP id d8mr4831619wfa.81.1265674770150; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:19:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a1002081541k18b9557x7906a54c1aa1e636@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <58965d8a1002081541k18b9557x7906a54c1aa1e636@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:19:30 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1002081619j6e03eabfwf5b163575fe13a0d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 552945aa-1401-4b5b-9bf3-7f10028efb76 X-Archives-Hash: f1615e3968a63f9a1ca7d4f334943e12 On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly >> explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my >> head in shame and apologise for the noise! =C2=A0;-) > > I believe you'll be hearing from Dale in the near future. :) > > HAL-in-xorg-in-a-nutshell: If you're using an ordinary desktop system, > you shouldn't need to manually do anything. Just run X as usual and it > should work. While I think this is what people believe, I must point out that for it work automatically the system needs to be supported by whatever version of drivers support the graphics device in the system. I just got a DH55HC motherboard with the i5-661 processor which does some or most of the VGA function. For that device to be discovered and run automatically I would have had to use stuff that's marked ~amd64 which I generally don't do and in this case didn't because it became a waterfall of things getting unmasked. So, if you're supported it will work. If you're not because this is new hardware then you still need xorg.conf. Cheers, Mark