Need help: Lost keyboard after xorg upgrade

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Aug 12 15:36:51 PDT 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:16:16AM +0200, Michael wrote:
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> >> I'm afraid running a GDB on the xserver is somewhat above my expertise.
> >> But maybe I go and file a bug on the bug tracker, so that a developer can
> >> have a look at it.
> > 
> > unfortunately, there's a high chance that that developer would be me...
> 
> :-) O.k. I see.
> 
> So, is there somewhere a tutorial for total newbies on howto debug an 
> xserver? Is it feasible at all for someone like me?
> 
> I do have two laptops, so I can ssh into the problematic one.

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging
is the best source here, if something is missing, feel free to ask (but add
it to the wiki afterwards)

Cheers,
  Peter



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