X: What do these modules do?

dsegel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 127

I have the following modules loading in my Xorg.conf file:

Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"

I know about glx, freetype, and type1, but what do those other modules do? Do I really need to be loading them?

codergeek42 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:35 am Post subject:

dbe handes the Double Buffering to make X more smooth. I'm not sure, but I think fbdevhw is hardware frambuffering. DRI is the Direct Rendering Interface, used with the ATi drivers. I don't know what record does. Perhaps it enables recording of dynamic output such as videos, etc.
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dsegel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 127

So if I'm running an Nvidia card I don't need DRI at all?

blaster999 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 7:52 am Post subject:

DRI stands for Direct Rendering Infrastructure and is used to directly access graphics hardware. Without it you won't get 3d hardware acceleration.
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Useful Idiot · Guru Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 329 Location: Finland

No, you don't need DRI with Nvidia drivers. In fact, nvidia doesn't even support it.
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