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

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