Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual page 484

Chapter 31. The X Window System
31.3.1.4. Files
The Files section sets paths for services vital to the X server, such as the font path. This is an
optional section, these paths are normally detected automatically. This section may be used to
override any automatically detected defaults.
The following example illustrates a typical Files section:
Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection
The following entries are commonly used in the Files section:
• RgbPath — Specifies the location of the RGB color database. This database defines all valid color
names in X and ties them to specific RGB values.
• FontPath — Specifies where the X server must connect to obtain fonts from the xfs font server.
By default, the FontPath is unix/:7100. This tells the X server to obtain font information using
UNIX-domain sockets for inter-process communication (IPC) on port 7100.
Section 31.4, "Fonts"
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• ModulePath — An optional parameter which specifies alternate directories which store X server
modules.
31.3.1.5. Module
By default, the X server automatically loads the following modules from the /usr/lib/xorg/
modules/ directory:
• extmod
• dbe
• glx
• freetype
• type1
• record
• dri
The default directory for loading these modules can be changed by specifying a different directory
with the optional ModulePath parameter in the Files section. Refer to
more information on this section.
Adding a Module section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf instructs the X server to load the modules listed
in this section instead of the default modules.
For example, the following typical Module section:
Section "Module" Load "fbdevhw" EndSection
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