Random X crashes - radeon m 7500

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Dave Wood <dave at unrealize.co.uk> wrote:
> In the kast few days I've had quite a few X crashes. I tried to attach
> process to gdb but I had some internal errors and locked up my laptop when
> I tried to switch back to vt 7. This is a radeon M 7500
>
> Is there some way of debugging this without gdbm or does anyone have any
> ideas what the cause might be?
>
> Googling produces some results but they seem to be various and I haven't
> found any solution.

Do either of the following options help?

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "RenderAccel" "FALSE"


>
> Here is the end of my xorg log:
>
> Backtrace:
>  0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80bf1ee]
>  1: [0xffffe420]
>  2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb798aded]
>  3: /usr/bin/X [0x8168704]
>  4: /usr/bin/X(CompositeGlyphs+0x9a) [0x814fd8a]
>  5: /usr/bin/X [0x8157648]
>  6: /usr/bin/X [0x8152aa5]
>  7: /usr/bin/X [0x814620e]
>  8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x2bf) [0x808688f]
>  9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x806ddab]
>  10: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7d5a390]
>  11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x20d) [0x806d121]
>
>  Fatal server error:
>  Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Any chance you could get a proper backtrace with gdb?
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging

Alex