Package: xserver-xorg Version: All Severity: important
This report is about modules, that gets added into xorg.conf, for all versions of XFree86 and X.org that all versions Debian comes with. From stable, to experimental. dexconf, alias dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.. inserts this, and let me comment on few of these. Section "Module" Load "bitmap" # Should be never present, as it gets automatically loaded. This is a font module, and loading it in xorg.conf makes X try to load it twice. Load "dbe" # This is okay. Double Buffering Extension, very important. Load "ddc" # This should be never present, as it gets automatically loaded. Load "dri" # This shouldn't be available choice is user has selected driver vga, vesa or nv. Load "extmod" # This is okay, but if you look into "man xorg.conf" you'll find option NOT to include DGA extension with extmod, and for a good reason.. DGA causes instability as it access videoram without consulting X about it. Load "freetype" # This is okay. Fonts. Load "glx" # This is okay. GLX Extension. Load "int10" # This should be never present, as it is for developers.. and they know how to add it if they need it. Load "record" # This should be never present, as it is for developers.. and they know how to add it if they need it. Load "type1" # This is okay, for fonts. Load "vbe" # I believe this gets automatically loaded also, but about this one.. I'm not 100% positive. EndSection I've also seen configurations, with Load "i2c", that is bogus, for sure. I don't know how dexconf gets the "list" you get to pick your modules from, but it should be changed.. so that there is NO: bitmap, i2c, vbe, record, int10, GLcore (gets also automatically loaded), speedo (deprecated font system). Also, it should have availability to add instead of Load "extmod", this: SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection and this loads all of extmod, except DGA extension. specially good for binary drivers, like NVidia and fglrx but it makes other drivers unstable too. Excuse my bad english. Thanks, S. Suominen -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Excuse my bad english. Thanks, S. SuominenLocale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
