[Tfug] Need help finding a distro

[erich]

Yeah,
        I'm upgrading this machine I have, (It's in the workshop, and I 
just turned it on so I could
refer to it). It currently has xorg-server-1.5.3-r6. "Were not in Kansas 
anymore" There is
no xorg.conf file. We now use HAL *.fdi files or "device information 
files" written in
xml. They say you should write one yourself, but *.fdi's are the 
oriental mystery to me.
Fortunately HAL ships with a bunch of *.fdi files (under Gentoo, I don't 
know what
other distros have). Getting the x-server to work was picking the right 
*.fdi file shipped
with HAL, and putting it in the right place.

For me that file was called:
                                10-x11-input.fdi
it was in:
                                /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor
and I copied it to:
                                /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

My xorg-server then started to work.

        However,I'm not out of the woods yet. GLX doesn't work yet, and 
I'm going to
need it to watch movies or play games. There may be a HAL *.fdi for that 
purpose
I have to do more research.

                                                                           
Cheers,
                                                                           
Erich


earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
> On Sat, July 18, 2009 11:36 pm, erich wrote:
>   
>> Yeah,
>>          That's what I suspected when I saw this. This is a new version
>> of xorg-server that
>> mediates mouse & keyboard thru HAL.
>>
>>
>> Erich
>>     
>
>
> I don't have the reference and wish I'd saved it.  It compares Open
> Solaris with Ubuntu I believe.  Open Solaris scores extremely well on most
> video benchmarks.  In conclusion the author said that Open Solaris hadn't
> updated to the latest Xorg yet and would probably loose it's advantage
> when it did.
>
> Discouraging.
>
> Earl
>
>
>
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