On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: > On 4/5/2010 7:37 AM, 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. > > 1. Dale, preemptive shush. > > 2. HAL is going away, so I'd suggest you just ignore everything the > HOWTO says about it and use the previous method of defining everything > in xorg.conf. > > 3. If you want to keep HAL: the HOWTO isn't really referring to your > video hardware when it says not to use a configuration file. It's > mostly talking about your input devices and other hardware. If X isn't > auto-detecting your hardware properly, adding configuration sections to > xorg.conf is still correct. > >
Thanks for the advice! I will then gladly define it in xorg.conf, maybe even remove HAL.
