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sDoky

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From: Brno, Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 183

xorg.conf - hal

Hi, I have been using arch for quite a long time. Some time ago, when I was installing gnome and x11 I had to generate the xorg.conf using hwd. Hwd is now only in AUR and it is completely useless. I am using HAL configuration now and I want to make some improvements to the graphics configuration like enabling UXA rendering and so on. This forbids me from doing so. I was wondering whether there's a way to write HAL's detected config into xorg.conf for me to edit or some other way. The way of trying every config is a bit uncomfortable for me, because almost every time there's anything wrong, all input devices are not being listened to so I need to perform a hard reset and it hurts my heart. needless to say the filesystem check I had to turn off because of this.

Thank you

EDIT: It is probably good idea to mention my hardware

Lenovo R400
C2D T6670 2,2GHz
intel integrated graphics 4500MHD
1280x800 display
2GB RAM
...

[sdoky@sdoky-r400 ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

Last edited by sDoky (2010-01-20 15:03:11)

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: xorg.conf - hal

Did you try generating a xorg.conf like:

Xorg -configure
cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then make your changes to the file.

Also see this:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel

sDoky

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From: Brno, Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 183

Re: xorg.conf - hal

Yes, I tried that and I don't know why X ignores my xorg.conf. Whatever I put in is being ignored, even obviously bad resolutions and color depths, vsyncs, hsyncs and so on... Is there any way HAL overrides my config?

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JezdziecBezNicka

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From: Cracow, Poland

Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 89

Re: xorg.conf - hal

Have you tried temporarily removing hal from the daemons list? That way you could find out whether hal is overriding the xorg settings.

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sDoky

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From: Brno, Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 183

Re: xorg.conf - hal

Yeah, it definetely does override my config, because if I run gdm with hal stopped, graphics seem OK, but input devices are dead. I have to work on that, that's no biggie. What is a problem, I kinda need hal for other services. Is there a way of telling hal what to do and what not to do?

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