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I'm just curious as to what all these modules that I'm loading in my xorg.conf file are doing? I tried to search for documentation, but all I get is people having problems starting X. Can anyone point me to the manual?
Originally posted by cutterjohn
I'm just curious as to what all these modules that I'm loading in my xorg.conf file are doing? I tried to search for documentation, but all I get is people having problems starting X. :) Can anyone point me to the manual?
If I read that correctly, you asked about the modules you're loading into
/etc/X11/xorg.conf - and if you will read that file, it's pretty explanatory
about each module. To my knowledge, and on my systems, there are no
modules named "record" or "xtrap" that are being loaded into Xorg.
XTrap is an X Server extension which facilitates the capturing of server
protocol and synthesizing core input events. XTrap functionality is being
evolved into the RECORD extension, rather than the XTEST extension,
by the X Consortium. Whilst I may plead mostly ignorance in this whole
area of the X Server, I don't see what "loading modules" has to do with
these extensions.
Can you elaborate?
Last edited by Bruce Hill; 10-22-2004 at 02:13 AM.
That's it. No comments, no documentation. Nothing. man xorg.conf also says nothing. Obviously, I can figure out the ones having to do with fonts and to some extent, the graphics related ones. Just curious about the others.
That's it. No comments, no documentation. Nothing. man xorg.conf also says nothing. Obviously, I can figure out the ones having to do with fonts and to some extent, the graphics related ones. Just curious about the others.
I've 4 boxen here with Slack and none of them has a xorg.conf file with modules listed like that. I could ask questions and guess, but that's no better than you searching and reading. I can tell you that "record" and "xtrap" are X server extensions. I can't tell you what's been installed that added those module load lines to your file.
Have you edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change it from the default? I ask because all mine (Slack-9.1 and Slack-10.0) have comments either before or beside those modules.
When I read "man xorg.conf" I do get a lot of information about the Module Section. Almost all of those modules are in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions and the default ModulePath is /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ if that helps.
For more detailed reading try "man X" and it's referrals.
These could be related to your display manager, if you're using one.
Thanks chinaman for the effort. It's not a super big deal. I was just toying around with ways to generate xorg.conf files and when I ran
Code:
X -configure
I got those modules. I found the libraries, librecord.a, et. al., but I couldn't find any documentation. If you do a search on any of those terms, all you get is other people having problems starting X, etc. Just thought I would see if someone around here knew.
That will yield you more results, from different sources, than just
searching at LQ. And it will find LQ posts, also. Sorry I couldn't help,
my knowledge of X is incredibly limited. Actually, we can say that of
Linux in general. ;^)
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