Ubuntu Wiki

Troubleshooting Resources

• Community support pages:

  • Binary Driver Howto

  • Hybrid Graphics Howto

  • Absolute Beginner Talk Forum

  • Hardware & Laptops Support Forum

• X Debugging Handbook

  1. X Reporting - How to create good X bug reports

  2. X Triaging - How to ensure new X bug reports have enough info to troubleshoot

  3. X Backtracing - How to collect a backtrace for an X crash

  4. X Upstreaming - Forwarding X bugs to their upstream project

  5. X Glossary - Explanations for confusing terms often seen in logs and error messages

  6. X Crash Fixing - How to fix X crashes

  7. X Quirks - Fixes for some common hardware-specific issues

  8. X Troubleshooting - How to analyze X bugs to make them solvable

  9. X/Bisecting - Using bisection techniques to solve regressions or backport fixes

Advanced Topics

• X/Config - How to configure Xorg the page being linked to needs to have each of its links checked for currency, accuracy, validity, and if a page passes those, then for readability and phrasing

• X/NonGraphicalBoot - Running X manually, without gdm

• X/KernelModeSetting - Configuring and using KMS (in Karmic)

• X/Rootless - Running X as a user process, not as the root user

• X/InterpretingIntelGpuDump - Ringbuffers, batchbuffers, and the meaning of intel_gpu_dump output

• X/InputCoordinateTransformation - How to set the mapping of an input device to a display through X

• X/HybridGraphics - How to make the most of your system with hybrid graphics

• XorgOnTheEdge - for bleeding edge packages

Development Foundations

• Development Documentation

  • X/Architecture - High level architectural overview of X.org

  • X/DriverDevelopment - Developing new Xorg drivers for Ubuntu

  • X/DriverBuilding - Building debs of upstream drivers

• Quality Assurance

  • X/Testing - Test Plans for X

  • X/Drivers - Current status of X drivers

  • X/Bugs - Analysis of collection of similar bugs

• Ubuntu X Development

  • X/SwatTeam - Joining the Ubuntu X.org team note that this is the main Ubuntu-X team page...also, it needs to be looked over for possible updates

  • X/Blueprints - Specifications of interest for X

  • X/GitUsage - Instructions for using git