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Mark Haney wrote: |
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> Is that supposed to be the |
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> case? I thought when the system had to detect everything it would |
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> create a new one? |
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> I do have an xorg.conf~ file sitting in that directory, could the system |
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> be using that one instead? |
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The way, I understand it, starting with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.x with |
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sys-apps/hal support, Xorg requests input devices from HAL. (Could be, |
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that 1.4.x did it also, but for 1.5.x I'm sure.) HAL will then take |
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care, that the device is configured the right way. If one doesn't like |
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the default behaviour (e.g. keyboard layout), one should set an |
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additional policy for hal (in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/), instead of writing |
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an input section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. So /etc/X11/xorg.conf is still |
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there to configure the graphic cards (driver) and screens. |
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I read somewhere, that one long term goal of Xorg is to work with zero |
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configuration. From my experience, the defaults from Xorg work quite |
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good. Sometimes I force the graphics driver to do something particular, |
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like EXA, because I want to test it and upstream doesn't consider it |
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stable enough, that it choosen as default acceleration method (at least |
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in the past EXA wasn't default for some drivers). So maybe for your |
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case, the default value are good enough and it works without any |
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configuration (with HAL reporting the input devices with configuration |
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and DDC reports monitor configuration). |
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I recommend reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log, that's the way I check, what |
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Xorg is doing. Additional informations on 11-base/xorg-server-1.5.x and |
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HAL can be found on Remi Cardona's blog: |
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http://blogs.gentoo.org/remi/2008/10/18/it_s_been_too_long |
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J_M |
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