[sldev] How to debug X server crash?

[Ben Byer]

On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:40 AM, Dale Glass wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:29:46PM +0200, Boroondas Gupte wrote:
>>
>> However your description of the symptoms sounds to me, like the  
>> graphic
>> card driver might come in, too. I guess it'll be difficult if not
>> impossible to get debug symbols into that.
> Yeah, darn closed source drivers.
>
> This didn't happen before though. Think there's two possibilities  
> here:
> One is that the nvidia driver is buggy, and the other is that SL does
> something incorrectly.

Almost by definition, if something can cause the X server to crash,  
it's a bug in the X server.  Unfortunately, you're going to get no  
love from the X.org folks while using a closed-source driver.

-b