Debugging X.org drivers?

[Jim Gettys]

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

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 02:47 +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> 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
>