Debugging X.org drivers?

[Roland Mainz]

Adam Jackson 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.
> 
> Kendall, I'm for some reason thinking that the SciTech drivers were based on
> the cfb framebuffer core.  cfb will not work under dlloader with 6.8 without
> a patch:
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1114
> 
> but you may be better off switching to fb.

Do you have any example patch which shows how to turn a driver from cfb
over to fb ? HP's PCL drivers use cfb extensively and it may be nice to
switch them over, too...

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Roland

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