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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

verbose logging?

Asked by hidinginthemountains

I'm experiencing a problem (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/497607) I suspect may involve this package, but due to the nature of the lockup, I don't have anything to go on from log files. Is there a way in which I can increase the amount of information that will be logged about what xserver-xorg-video-ati is doing so that I can confirm or eliminate it as the source of my bug?

Any suggestions as to how I can work on this and be able to provide useful information to others?

FYI: I'm running a fresh install of Karmic, and my machine contains an ATI Radeon Xpress 200m (any other info should either be at the bug, or can be provided upon request).

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Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu) said : 		#1

Have you checked your /var/log/Xorg.XXX files? Those are the log files for your X server

However if it is a hard lock and you see nothing in /var/log/messages probably the errors related to Xorg aren't logged either

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hidinginthemountains (hidinginthemountains) said : 		#2

Thanks, I thought that would probably be the case. I have checked those messages, and nothing was recorded there.

I'm keeping this question open for now with regards to the second part of my question:
"Any suggestions as to how I can work on this and be able to provide useful information to others?"

This could be rewritten as, "what sorts of measures can I take in order to capture information about a hard lock?"

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Tomodachi (tomodachi) said : 		#3

if its more low-level you could try checking your kernel log for messages.
if your problem its reproducable enough maybe use ssh from another machine to the computer with the problem
then run the command:

tail -f /var/log/kern.log

to have it show the latest entries to the kernel log.

This way around when the problem occurs you will hopefully see the output on your other computer

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