[Tfug] Need help finding a distro

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Mon, July 20, 2009 8:56 pm, erich wrote:
> 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

Thanks.  I'll need to look into this more.  It still doesn't seem that I
can had someone a computer though and expect them to take it home and have
it work.

I'm investigating PCLinuxOS and Mandriva.  They both seem to be using sorg
1.4 or so.  Maybe that will help.  Mandriva has a very attractive Gnome
interface too.

Earl