Re: No shape and sync extensions in xorg?

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d jacobfeuerborn conversis de>]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> > It apparently added a Modules section with a Load "glx" command but why 
> > would that stop the extmod extension from auto-loading?
>
> Because your modules section looked like:
>
> Section "Modules"
>    Load "glx"
> EndSection
>
> If it were empty, or nonexistant, then we'd load the default set, which
> includes glx.  But since it has exactly one entry, we load just the
> modules you ask for, and nothing else.
>
> Hence "added a Modules section that it didn't need to".  GLX is in the
> default module set!  The driver install script needs to not muck with
> the Modules section, period.  You know, the same way none of the drivers
> in core touch xorg.conf.

The way to determine when to load the default set doesn't look very 
intuitive to me. I think it would be better to make it behave like this: If 
a Modules section is present (even an empty one) only load the modules in 
that section (even if that means loading none). If no Modules section is 
present load the default set. Since in the presence of an empty Modules 
section the default set was still loaded I assumed that adding a 'Load "XYZ 
"'would merely add that module to the list of modules to load and not 
actually disable the defaults. That's why I was wondering what was going on.


Regards,
  Dennis