[gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my
>>> xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in
>>> xorg.conf at all these days?
>> Fonts are complicated :-)
>>
>> IIRC, the older bit mapped X fonts go in xorg.conf
>
> you don't need any fonts in xorg.conf.

That is true, but if I remove the section, fonts in Firefox seem to 
change.  So it does something.  It still works, but different.  No idea 
how/why.