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On Tuesday 09 February 2010 00:20:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hi, Gentoo! |
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> I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It |
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> only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel |
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> in a trial run. :-) |
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> However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. "The X Server |
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> Configuration HOWTO", section 3. "Configuring Xorg" says: |
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> "Hal comes with many premade device rules, also called policies. |
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> These policy files are available in /usr/....../policy. Just find a |
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> few that suit your needs most closely and copy them to /etc/...." |
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> "For example, to get a basic working keyboard/mouse combination, you |
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> could copy the following files... |
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> /usr/.........../10-input-policy.fdi |
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> /usr/.........../10-x11-input.fdi" |
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> |
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> . Am I the only person that finds this semantic gibberish? |
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No, you are not the only one. There's a whole crowd of us here already, you |
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can join our club. |
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We even have a fearless leader and his name is Dale. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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