On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:20 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! OH HAI!
[snip to the crux:] > Can this new-style fragmented XML configuration do anything that a good > old-fashioned, human-readable and compact xorg.conf can't? If so, what? > What am I missing here? presumably you're missing the previous conversation on this topic: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/225223/focus=225223 > Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly > explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my > head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-) isn't it just done for you? $ slocate 10-input-policy.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi i...@orpheus ~ $ equery belongs /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi * Searching for /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi ... sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r2 (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi) so why are you copying these files by hand? -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem.
