Debugging hard lockup with Xorg??

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Fri Jan 7 08:43:43 PST 2005


On Friday 07 January 2005 11:40, Rune Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
> I get a hard lockup when trying to start Xorg with an ATI X800XT (JK)
> gfx-card.
>
> How do I debug hard lockups with Xorg?

ssh in from another machine, su, attach gdb to the running server, 'bt f'.

I once wrote a minihowto on server debugging:

http://freedesktop.org/~ajax/backtraces-for-dummies.txt

I distinctly recall putting that on the wiki, but I don't see it there 
anymore.

- ajax
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