Olaf Till wrote: >> attaching should work fine (with gdb -p $(pidof X)). >> If you see the X process in ps, there's no reason you couldn't attach. >> > > At home, I got no prompt and something like 'ptrace - operation not > allowed' after killing gdb. >
Is it possible that the X server was running as root while you were not root, or anything like this? Running gdb as root might help then. > Sorry, a typo, and further misread to 'dbg', probably. I meant without > or with the line 'dri' in the module-section of xorg.conf (not > 'drm'). BTW there was an unsatisfied dependency of the experimental > X-server of a newer libdrm2 (don't know it, but sounds as if it had > something to do with direct rendering) than installed. > You need libdrm2 2.3.0 for Xserver 1.3. Both are in unstable now, with appropriate dependencies. > I think the log stops after loading the module dri. Seemingly X was > not able to log anything else after this. Compare to the attached > respective log (also experimental server) after commenting out "dri" > in the module-section of xorg.conf. As I said, there was no process X > present after trying to start this experimental server with "dri". > As Michel said, there might be something in the error output. Starting the X server with 'startx /usr/bin/xterm 2> file' should catch it. Thanks, Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]