Bug#597564: Hard to stop X server loading module synaptics

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Bug#597564: Hard to stop X server loading module synaptics"):
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 23:53:38 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 22:18:30 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Package: xserver-xorg
> > > Version: 1:7.3+20
> 
> Oh wait, lenny.  What I said applies to squeeze/sid, on lenny you can
> probably set the AutoAddDevices option to false in xorg.conf and
> synaptics shouldn't get loaded.  That might mess things up on upgrade to
> squeeze though.

Thanks for your response.  It's nice to get a set of personalised tips
for how to make it do what I want, but really I was just trying to
help improve the software to save the next person the hassle :-).  As
I say, the dpkg-divert sledgehammer has solved the problem for me in
etch.

Is the procedure you suggested in your previous mail documented in the
squeeze manpage for xorg.conf ?  In lenny's xorg.conf(5) the
description in the section on module loading is rather vague, and the
AutoAddDevices option isn't even mentioned.

If disabling a driver module in the Modules section doesn't work
perhaps there should be a comment in the manpage which explains how to
control the loading of driver modules.

Ian.