Re: turning on X extensions with XFree86 4.0.x

[Romain Lerallut <rlerallut@free.fr>]

Thus spake Joshua N Pritikin on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:16:17PM +0530:
> i installed xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb today, and simple things like
> the shaped window extension disappeared.  xdpyinfo reports:
> 
> number of extensions:    8
>     LBX
>     MIT-SHM
>     SECURITY
>     XC-APPGROUP
>     XFree86-Bigfont
>     XInputExtension
>     XKEYBOARD
>     XTEST
> 
> However, i see a bunch of other goodies here:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a
> 
> The man pages are not helpful;  i'd prefer not to download the source code
> to research this.  Is there some magic way to turn on these extensions?

check out /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
				 
Section "Module"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "dbe"
        Load    "dri"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "glx"
	<....>
EndSection

 

HTH,
Romain

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