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Troubleshooting Resources
- Community support pages:
X Debugging Handbook
X Reporting - How to create good X bug reports
X Triaging - How to ensure new X bug reports have enough info to troubleshoot
X Backtracing - How to collect a backtrace for an X crash
X Upstreaming - Forwarding X bugs to their upstream project
X Glossary - Explanations for confusing terms often seen in logs and error messages
X Crash Fixing - How to fix X crashes
X Quirks - Fixes for some common hardware-specific issues
X Troubleshooting - How to analyze X bugs to make them solvable
X/Bisecting - Using bisection techniques to solve regressions or backport fixes
Advanced Topics
X/Config - How to configure Xorg
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/Touch - Touchscreen and multi-touch testing
X/Drivers - Current status of X drivers
X/Bugs - Analysis of collection of similar bugs
X/SwatTeam - Joining the Ubuntu X.org team
X/Blueprints - Specifications of interest for X
X/GitUsage - Instructions for using git