Debugging X.org drivers?

[Kendall Bennett]

Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:

> On Friday 29 October 2004 20:57, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > X11R6.8 has the ability to load .so files as well as the XFree86 loader,
> > and therefore is able to be debugged using a standard GDB.
> >
> > I don't know the exact details; IIRC Adam Jackson (ajax) did the work...
> >     - Jim
> 
> Yep, that was me.  Feel free to drop me a line if you have any
> trouble making dlloader modules work. 

Sweet, it works perfectly! I nuked the /usr/X11R16/lib directory first 
and it seems to be fine. 

Now I have a problem that I ran into year ago but since I have been using 
the same Red Hat 7.3 box until now for debugging, I haven't seen it in 
ages. Basically if I take a copy of the existin Fedora Core 2 install and 
then do a 'make install' over the top, running 'startx' will start the 
desktop but I just get a bunch of X terminals starting up and not the 
usual KDE deskop that normally starts up. Switching back to the original 
files (I saved them and symlink the directories) and everything is fine.

I forget what it is, but something about the install process blows away 
something in the startup scripts. Does anyone know what it is and how to 
make it do a make install that is friendly to the existing install so 
'startx' will continue to function as normal? 

It has been so long I forget what I did in the past to fix this.

Regards,

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