dlloader is now the default

Donnie Berkholz spyderous at gentoo.org
Fri Jan 14 10:55:06 PST 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:26 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> Currently everything lives under ${ProjectRoot}/lib/modules.  The core modules 
> (fb, ddc, etc.) live there.  There are various subdirectories beneath there:
> 
> - 'drivers' for video drivers
> - 'input' for input drivers
> - 'extensions' for extensions
> etc.
> 
> Presumably, once /usr/X11R6 goes away, that will migrate to something 
> like /usr/lib/xorg.  I believe there's a ModulePath imake variable for this.

If you don't define ProjectRoot, UsrLibDir defaults to /usr/lib (not
surprisingly), so it ends up at /usr/lib/modules. I think that largely
respecting what X does in absence of ProjectRoot is a logical way to
move away from /usr/X11R6, as long as it also makes some sense with FHS.




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