nightmorph 09/12/31 01:37:02
Modified: xorg-config.xml
Log:
Add information about (re)starting hald, per an email from Janne Mäntylä
Revision Changes Path
1.35 xml/htdocs/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/xorg-config.xml?r1=1.34&r2=1.35
Index: xorg-config.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/xorg-config.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.34
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.34 -r1.35
--- xorg-config.xml 17 Dec 2009 04:41:24 -0000 1.34
+++ xorg-config.xml 31 Dec 2009 01:37:01 -0000 1.35
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/xorg-config.xml,v 1.34 2009/12/17 04:41:24 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/xorg-config.xml,v 1.35 2009/12/31 01:37:01 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<guide>
<title>The X Server Configuration HOWTO</title>
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.24</version>
-<date>2009-12-16</date>
+<version>1.25</version>
+<date>2009-12-30</date>
<chapter>
<title>What is the X Window Server?</title>
@@ -213,19 +213,32 @@
# <i>source /etc/profile</i>
</pre>
+<p>
+Now it's time to start the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) daemon and set it to
+automatically start each time you boot. This is necessary to get a working X
+environment, otherwise your input devices won't be detected and you'll probably
+just get a blank screen. We'll cover HAL more in the <uri
+link="#using_hal">next section</uri>.
+</p>
+
+<pre caption="Starting HAL">
+# <i>/etc/init.d/hald start</i>
+# <i>rc-update add hald default</i>
+</pre>
+
</body>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Configuring Xorg</title>
-<section>
+<section id="using_hal">
<title>Using HAL</title>
<body>
<p>
Recent X server versions are designed to work out-of-the-box, with no need to
-manually configure Xorg's configuration files.
+manually edit Xorg's configuration files.
</p>
<p>
@@ -274,6 +287,11 @@
<path>/etc/hal/fdi/policy/</path>.
</p>
+<impo>
+Remember, <e>every</e> time you finish making changes to HAL policy files, you
+need to restart the HAL daemon by running <c>/etc/init.d/hald restart</c>.
+</impo>
+
<p>
You can edit the policy files in <path>/etc/hal/fdi/policy</path> to your
liking. You may want to make a few tweaks or to expose additional
@@ -310,6 +328,11 @@
</pre>
<p>
+Once you're done, run <c>/etc/init.d/hald restart</c> so that HAL picks up your
+changes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
There, now you have a handy way of killing an unresponsive X server. This is
useful when programs have frozen your display entirely, or when configuring and
tweaking your Xorg environment. Be careful when killing your desktop with this
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