Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing X.org video driver without xorg.config

[William Kenworthy]

My experience with my own systems is that (at least on mostly older
hardware), disabling hal is the only way to get a properly working
system.  I would suggest trying with hal at first (which you have done),
then overiding it with xorg.conf where necessary - but often xorg seems
to prefer hal over the conf file so in more problematic cases, compile
with -hal.

They will probably get it working properly eventually, but for the
moment hal is one of those things that sounded good in theory, but ...


BillK




On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 14:37 +0300, Black Napalm wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to set up X.org and the Gentoo X Server configuration
> HOWTO says that HAL should be used and that xorg.conf should only be
> used as a last resort. However, when running X without a configuration
> file, it autodetects the video card and tries to load the wrong
> drivers, which I haven't installed, and therefore fails.
> Is there a way to force X to use a specific driver without using a
> configuration file? I am not really familiar with HAL, but it seems as
> though none of the provided policies have anything to do with video
> cards.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
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