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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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. |
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While I think this is what people believe, I must point out that for |
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it work automatically the system needs to be supported by whatever |
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version of drivers support the graphics device in the system. |
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I just got a DH55HC motherboard with the i5-661 processor which does |
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some or most of the VGA function. For that device to be discovered and |
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run automatically I would have had to use stuff that's marked ~amd64 |
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which I generally don't do and in this case didn't because it became a |
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waterfall of things getting unmasked. |
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So, if you're supported it will work. If you're not because this is |
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new hardware then you still need xorg.conf. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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