disable modules in xorg.conf?

[Styma, Robert E (Robert)]

> Tom Horsley wrote:
> >>> "X -configure' to see if it generates a working X file that is 
> >>> substantial enough to prevent the guessing game.
> >> Yea, I suppose it might be possible that if there is a Modules
> >> section, the server won't provide modules on its own. I'll try
> >> that next time I have FC6 booted again.
> > 
> > Yep, it worked. I turned all the "LoadModule:" lines in the xorg
> > log file into a "Modules" section in the xorg.conf file, 
> then commented
> > out the ones I didn't want, and the new log file showed 
> that it really
> > didn't load them.
> > 
> > So I now have dri and glx turned off and I can try running 
> for a while
> > to see if the screen flickering will also stop.
> > 
> > No doubt the problem someone was having in another thread with vnc
> > is related. I think he said he added a Modules section to 
> get the vnc
> > module to load, and all sorts of things stopped working. Probably it
> > was only loading vnc and nothing else. I love helpful software :-).
> > 
> 
> I'm glad that the config file at least allows you to control 
> the loading 
> of modules. I wondered why the vnc module was loaded when I ran X 
> -configure to make an xorg.conf file. I guess this method of 
> configuration that X -configure does might help out the 
> people who use 
> vnc also.
> 
Thank you for the insight on using the Log to build up the Modules section.
This would be a very workable solution.  The FC6 X server must however be 
getting the list of modules to load from somewhere.  I am wondering if there
is a way to find out how that list is derived and get VNC into that list.

Bob Styma