Official method for determining modular X module path?

[Mike A. Harris]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:42:26PM -0800, Andy Ritger wrote:
> 
>>With the new modular X server filesystem layout, how should 3rd party
>>vendors determine the path in which to install their X drivers?
>>My understanding is that the correct answer is for 3rd party
>>installation tools to run:
>>
>>    pkg-config --variable=moduledir xorg-server
> 
> 
> Correct.
> 
> 
>>Is that correct?  If so, then I'd like to champion this with the
>>Linux distros.
> 
> 
> This works in Ubuntu today, and will work with the packaging that Debian
> also uses.

Yep, it'll work for Fedora Core 5 and later OS releases also.
Fedora Core 4 and earlier, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and
earlier however use monolithic X.Org or XFree86, and so it wont
work on those releases.