Official method for determining modular X module path?
Andy Ritger
aritger at nvidia.com
Wed Nov 30 15:42:26 PST 2005
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
Is that correct? If so, then I'd like to champion this with the
Linux distros.
The installer for the next NVIDIA Linux driver release will run
the above command; if that is successful and returns a directory
that exists, it will be used, otherwise the NVIDIA installer will
fall back to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules.
Is that the proper heuristic to use?
Thanks,
- Andy
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