Debugging X.org drivers?
Kendall Bennett
KendallB at scitechsoft.com
Wed Nov 3 16:53:23 PST 2004
I wrote:
> 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.
Well the server runs just fine, but unfortunately I can't do any
debugging! When I start GDB on the X server (gdb X), when I run the
server gdb crashes with an internal error. I get the same error if I run
the installed version of X or if I run the debug build that I have built.
What platforms and versions of gdb are you guys testing and developing
with? I am using Fedora Core 2 on my test machine, and I just upgraded to
all the latest patches and updates (crashed the same before and after).
Regards,
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