From caf9b6bfba3d033e2298e45f56c390a4c695cba7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Armijn Hemel <armijn@gpl-violations.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:48:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] start of good HOWTO for using X in NixOS

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4602
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 X-howto | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 X-howto

diff --git a/X-howto b/X-howto
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6cf4bd367633
--- /dev/null
+++ b/X-howto
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+Making X work in NixOS (fixing guide)
+
+  Mouse
+
+* for mouse support /dev/input/mice needs to be there. This device can be
+created either automatically with udev, or manually with mknod.
+
+  Fonts
+
+Right now fonts have to be copied from another machine and put into
+/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
+
+  Config
+
+in services/trunk/configurations/tyros.cs.uu.nl-xorg/ there is a Nix expression
+which builds a working X configuration for use in VMware.