On Tuesday 09 February 2010 00:20:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It > only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel > in a trial run. :-) > > However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. "The X Server > Configuration HOWTO", section 3. "Configuring Xorg" says: > > "Hal comes with many premade device rules, also called policies. > These policy files are available in /usr/....../policy. Just find a > few that suit your needs most closely and copy them to /etc/...." > > "For example, to get a basic working keyboard/mouse combination, you > could copy the following files... > /usr/.........../10-input-policy.fdi > /usr/.........../10-x11-input.fdi" > > . Am I the only person that finds this semantic gibberish?
No, you are not the only one. There's a whole crowd of us here already, you can join our club. We even have a fearless leader and his name is Dale. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com