On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 04:05 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Hi Peter. > > Bad news from the "local_customisation_no_pours" branch: > I switched to the open source radeon driver rather than the closed > fglrx for my ATI HD4670 card. With this driver X freezes on start-up of > the no_pours version of pcb. The screen does not change anymore except > for a slowly updated mouse cursor. Since there is no keyboard input, I > could not enter a text console and had to do a reboot with the power > switch. I tried a fresh clone/compile/install but results are the same. > > Since most likely everything except for X is still working, I might be > able to log in via ssh and peek around (Have to move hardware in place, > first). Is there anything I might look for, so you get a chance to know > what happened?
Any errors at the bottom of dmesg Any errors at the bottom of /var/log/Xorg.0.log (.old) if restarted if you're running remotely, you can "sudo gdb /usr/bin/X `pidof X`" and grab a backtrace with "bt", although its been a while since I did that myself, so I'm not quite sure if I described the process of attaching right. It might actually suffice to do: "sudo gdb --pid `pidof X`" Then "bt", ENTER. Do it a few times.. does the trace location change, or stay the same? There may also be ways and means to debug by passing options to the GL driver, but I don't know any specifics for Radeon. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
