[Xorg-driver-geode] xf86-video-amd 2.7.7.4 - vm86 vs x86emu

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On 1/5/08, Bart Trojanowski <bart at jukie.net> wrote:
> * Martin-?ric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> [080105 13:39]:
> > Since gdb is so terse, I decided to try with strace, instead. The
> > result is attached.
>
> Hmm...
>
> > stat64("/proc/bus/pci/0000:00", 0xbfc39a34) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > open("/proc/bus/pci/00/01.1", O_RDWR)   = 6
> ...
> > lseek(6, 20, SEEK_SET)                  = 20
> > read(6, "\0\0\0\341", 4)                = 4
> > --- SIGFPE (Floating point exception) @ 0 (0) ---
>
> I don't think this really shows what caused the exception.  It's
> probably something that follows reading from the proc file... like an
> access to one of the memory maps... or an floating-pointer/arithmetic
> exception which would not show in strace :)
>
> If you were to run in gdb, you could maybe narrow it down to the
> instruction.

I wished.  The whole thing freezes before I can type "bt"

However, having installed dbg versions of all packages
xserver-xorg-core depends upon, I get a slightly better strace
(attached).

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi
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