Xorg crashes...

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 01/06/10 19:17, Ryan Daly wrote:
> On 01/06/2010 09:39 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>>   you need a newer version of xmacros
>> (everything is at cgit.freedesktop.org)
>
> Got'em and installed in /usr/local.
>
>> hopefully ubuntu is up-to-date
>> i.g. hopefully it doesn't take
>> much to use the latest version.
>> (you can also grab the tar ball
>> there if it becomes too much, or try older
>> versions of ubuntu's package);
>>
>> hard part right I see is pinpointing what exactly
>> is exiting your server, so you don't have to
>> do the trial and error approach.
>
> I got a clean compile after using the latest version of the macros.
>
> I compiled on a separate x86 system, but the same version of Ubuntu.
> Can I take xf86-input-evdev/src/.libs/evdev_drv.so and simply copy that
> to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (the Ubuntu location) on the
> troubled system and restart X?
   Should I continue to run w/ GDB attached
> to obtain another backtrace?
>
>

the module should work.. hopefully their the same arch's

as for the next step:
try starting the server from a TTY instead of through gdm
(as stated by peter hutterer from the other post try this and then go 
from there).

keep in mind evdev might be fine, at this point it could be
anything.(so hopefully doing the above gives some useful info
to target the problem).

Justin P. Mattock