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khazdar

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From: ohio

Registered: 2003-11-06

Posts: 123

Xorg Modules

Anyone know of a good reference guide to what all the xorg modules do? I'm trying to tweak my xorg.conf, and it's hard to do when I dont understand what the modules do.

I checked the wiki, man pages, our forums, the gentoo forums, and google... Is there even such a ref. guide?

Thanks for your insight !

-Khaz

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Xorg Modules

hmmm I don't think there's a guide... you can, however, check the module dir to see which ones are available and then research each one...

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 644

Re: Xorg Modules

Is it really the only way?

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xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Xorg Modules

Here is a brief documentation...
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgConfModulesSe … =(modules)

not listed in there but included in my xorg.conf are
"synaptics" which is for touchpads
and
"drm" some 3d-acceleration stuff... not 100% sure about it

Last edited by xdeusx (2008-02-11 23:02:05)

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 644

Re: Xorg Modules

Thanks xdeusx

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veek

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 167

Re: Xorg Modules

Hey good question, I've wondered this myself from time to time, and never really found an answer
although I assumed it was out there. It would be nice if there was more info available short of looking
at the source code.

xdeusx's link is definitely a nice bit of info