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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly |
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> explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my |
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> head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-) |
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I believe you'll be hearing from Dale in the near future. :) |
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HAL-in-xorg-in-a-nutshell: If you're using an ordinary desktop system, |
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you shouldn't need to manually do anything. Just run X as usual and it |
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should work. You can further customize behavior from inside |
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Gnome/KDE/whatever using their configuration tools. |
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Obviously that doesn't always work, at which point you'll then need to |
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start editing stuff. But I wouldn't bother with it unless you're |
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unable to get into X for some reason. The first place to look is the X |
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log file, which contains info about the hardware it auto-detected. |
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There's also quite a bit of outdated info from when the transition was |
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taking place, much of it making things sound more complicated than |
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they really are. (I have not RTFM) |
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Are you able to get into X or is it failing? |
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