Debugging X.org drivers?
Thomas Winischhofer
thomas at winischhofer.net
Fri Oct 29 17:47:46 PDT 2004
Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Has the situation changed somewhat from the XFree86 days with debugging
> the loadable modules in the server using GDB? I am still stuck on Red Hat
> 7.3 to have a working GDB that will debug loadable modules, and I want to
> move my X development box up to Fedora Core 2. Unfortunately I just tried
> my old GDB 6.0 patch under x86 and it crashes as soon as it tries to do
> something with the module (hit a breakpoint or whatever).
>
> Strangely we used this about a month ago for our port to x86-64, and it
> ran fine with GDB 6.0 on x86-64 and Fedora Core 2.
>
> Is there a better patch for a later GDB that works on x86 versions of
> Fedora Core 2? If not I suppose I can try to debug the current patch and
> then try to port it to GDB 6.2.1.
AIFAK, there was a specially patched gdb for debugging loadable modules.
Egbert Eich knows more about this.
Thomas
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