On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: >> 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! ;-) > > I believe you'll be hearing from Dale in the near future. :) > > HAL-in-xorg-in-a-nutshell: If you're using an ordinary desktop system, > you shouldn't need to manually do anything. Just run X as usual and it > should work.
While I think this is what people believe, I must point out that for it work automatically the system needs to be supported by whatever version of drivers support the graphics device in the system. I just got a DH55HC motherboard with the i5-661 processor which does some or most of the VGA function. For that device to be discovered and run automatically I would have had to use stuff that's marked ~amd64 which I generally don't do and in this case didn't because it became a waterfall of things getting unmasked. So, if you're supported it will work. If you're not because this is new hardware then you still need xorg.conf. Cheers, Mark
