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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug #64656 - Problems with xscreensaver and xorg
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:41:40
Message-Id: 1100504321.30573.33.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug #64656 - Problems with xscreensaver and xorg by Chris Bainbridge
1 On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 11:16 +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
2 > Without any more details it's difficult to tell what the problem is.
3 > Since theres no output you'd probably have to run xorg under gdb. The
4 > gdb-6.0-r1 ebuild has the patch for debugging symbols in xfree/xorg
5 > drivers; I'm not sure if the others do. Then recompile xorg with
6 > 'debug' in your USE flags. Run xorg under gdb (see
7 > http://xfree86.linuxwiki.org/DebuggingTheXserver for some hints).
8 > Hopefully when it crashes you should now be able to get a backtrace,
9 > which will point the way to the problem.
10
11 Don't worry about the gdb patch. Just build xorg with USE="debug
12 dlloader" to get "standard" modules w/ debugging info.

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