Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug #64656 - Problems with xscreensaver and xorg

[Chris Bainbridge]

Without any more details it's difficult to tell what the problem is.
Since theres no output you'd probably have to run xorg under gdb. The
gdb-6.0-r1 ebuild has the patch for debugging symbols in xfree/xorg
drivers; I'm not sure if the others  do.  Then recompile xorg with
'debug' in your USE flags. Run xorg under gdb (see
http://xfree86.linuxwiki.org/DebuggingTheXserver for some hints).
Hopefully when it crashes you should now be able to get a backtrace,
which will point the way to the problem.


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:20:51 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey@×××××.com> wrote:
> Can anyone provide suggestions about how to debug this problem. I
> opened the bug in September, but it's received no attention. I've
> tried numerous combinations of xorg (6.7 and 6.8), xscreensaver (4.15
> and 4.16) , gtk+, etc., but the problem persists. The basic problem is
> this: if I run xscreensaver or xscreensaver-demo and certain
> screensavers are selected (Atlantis is one example), the X server
> crashes. I get no additional info logged by xorg when the failure
> occurs. I have a SIS650 internal card, and I don't find any real
> matches (some hits on SIS650, but not my problem) of this problem
> using google.
>
> Other things like gimp and mplayer that are video intensive work just fine.
>
> Perhaps this is an xorg problem, but I know from past experience that
> xorg considers bugs reported by normal users like myself to be "noise"
> and nothing will be done.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> I also asked on gentoo-user (see thread: Problems with xscreensaver and xorg).
>
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