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| author | David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org> | 2007-05-03 22:00:23 -0400 |
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| committer | David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org> | 2007-05-03 22:00:23 -0400 |
| commit | e91b9ddc7aa95abc2d4d314e8db204860771a099 (patch) | |
| tree | f16b714021afb2f3e34be439eb9054d275f836c3 /hw/xfree86/doc | |
| parent | d2f813f7db157fc83abc4b3726821c36ee7e40b1 (diff) | |
Improve modules loading defaults
Provide default modules that may be overrided easily. Previously the
server would load a set of default modules, but only if none were
specified in the xorg.conf, or if you didn't have a xorg.conf at all. This
patch provides a default set and you can add only the "Load" instructions
to xorg.conf that you want without losing the defaults. Similarly, if you
don't want to load a module that's loaded by default, you can add "Disable
modulename" to your xorg.conf (see man xorg.conf in this release for
details). This allows for a minimal "Modules" section, where the user only
need specify what they want to be different. See bug #10541 for more.
The list of default modules is taken from the set loaded by default when
there was a xorg.conf containing no "Modules" section.
A potential problem for some users is that some users disable a module,
most notably DRI, by commenting out the "Load" line in their xorg.conf.
This needs to be changed to an uncommented "Disable" line, as DRI is
loaded by default.
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/xfree86/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre index 19315c024..f96428287 100644 --- a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre +++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre @@ -639,6 +639,20 @@ Example: the Type 1 font rasteriser can be loaded with the following entry: .B "Load \*qtype1\*q" .RE .RE +.TP 7 +.BI "Disable \*q" modulename \*q +This instructs the server to not load the module called +.IR modulename . +Some modules are loaded by default in the server, and this overrides that +default. If a +.B Load +instruction is given for the same module, it overrides the +.B Disable +instruction and the module is loaded. The module name given should be the +module's standard name, not the module file name. As with the +.B Load +instruction, the standard name is case-sensitive, and does not include the +"lib" prefix, or the ".a", ".o", or ".so" suffixes. .PP The second form of entry is a .BR SubSection, |