On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Matt Prazak wrote: > Partly out of curiosity and partly out of a desire for XFree86's GTK+ XInput > support, I'm trying to see how difficult/practical it would be to get the > XFree86 sunffb driver working under Solaris/SPARC. So far, XFree86 will > simply report that it finds no screens even when using a working config file > pulled from a Debian/SPARC install, and I quickly found that gdb isn't very > helpful for stepping into the sunffb module to see what's happening. There > seems to be some spotty documentation regarding special patches for gdb, so:
> 1) Are the patches available for enabling module debugging in gdb known to work > well under Solaris/SPARC? Are there known caveats? > 2) Are there recent developments regarding these patches (e.g., supporting more > recent versions of gdb, etc.)? > 3) How about Sun's dbx? I don't have a license for it , but I'm curious about > anyone's experiences with it with respect to XFree86. I might be able to get a > 60-day trial for dbx, but it would obviously be of limited use. > Also, I found that I had to disable set-uid on the XFree86 executable before > gdb would do anything meaningful (otherwise it reports errors about procfs). > This appears to have already been reported to the gdb project, at least > according to Google Groups. The XFree86 should be debugged as root. It is also easier to use a static binary generated with '#define DoLoadableServer NO' in xc/config/cf/host.def. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
