Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-21 Thread pk
Dale wrote: > You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not > or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as > pissed as I was tho. lol I'm just not going to try putting it on here > again. It didn't work. I couldn't configure the thing so that i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:09 -0600, Dale wrote: I like KDE 4. It just doesn't do what I need it to do just yet. I believe it will once the devs get around to fixing or adding some more code. They just expect to much out of it yet and dropped what was working to soon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:09 -0600, Dale wrote: > I like KDE 4. It just doesn't do what I need it to do just yet. I > believe it will once the devs get around to fixing or adding some more > code. They just expect to much out of it yet and dropped what was > working to soon. If it was worki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:37:14 Dale wrote: You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as pissed as I was tho. nah, you just found a new target: KDE-4 I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:37:14 Dale wrote: > You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not > or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as > pissed as I was tho. > nah, you just found a new target: KDE-4 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
pk wrote: Dale wrote: I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you want, and can, to "force" it to do what you want. Thing is, the config file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread pk
Dale wrote: > I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you > want, and can, to "force" it to do what you want. Thing is, the config > file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't > pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't use hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:43:58 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed > and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present. > > But yet an X display happ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > pk writes: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are >>> custom settings regarding the X session done? >> >> Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old >> xorg.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread pk
Harry Putnam wrote: > Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed > and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present. > > But yet an X display happens when I type `startx', apparently

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: pk writes: Harry Putnam wrote: For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are custom settings regarding the X session done? Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old xorg.conf since that will override what's in .

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread Harry Putnam
pk writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are >> custom settings regarding the X session done? > > Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old > xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/ OK, let m

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread Harry Putnam
walt writes: > On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I >> missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now. >> >> So my first question i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-17 Thread pk
Harry Putnam wrote: > For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are > custom settings regarding the X session done? Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/ Best regards Peter K

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
pk writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I >> suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner >> understand how to utilize the new proceedure. > > xorg.conf still works fine with the latest incarnations of Xorg. If you

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now. So my first question is what does do it?.. I have a