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! > -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
