Ubuntu Wiki

Basic Troubleshooting Resources

• Absolute Beginner Talk Forum

• X Reporting - How to create good X bug reports

• 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

• Hardware & Laptops Support Forum

• Binary Driver Howto

• Hybrid Graphics Howto

Advanced Topics

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

• X Troubleshooting - How to analyze X bugs to make them solvable

• X Backtracing - How to collect a backtrace for an X crash

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

• X/Testing/Touch - Touchscreen and multi-touch testing

• X/Bugs - Analysis of collection of similar bugs

• X/Bugs/Transitions - Explanation for "installing xserver-xorg-core would break existing software"

• [[X/i8xxUnsupported - Explanation of why i845, i855, i865, etc. chips aren't supported

• 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/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

• X Quirks - Fixes for some common hardware-specific issues

• X Crash Fixing - How to fix X crashes

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

• X/DebuggingWithValgrind

• X/CommonErrors

• X/ErrorMessages

• Wireless Without X - How to get a wireless network connection without X.

• Direct Wired Without WAP - How to connect two laptops with direct ethernet cord.

• Bugs/AtiDriver

• BootOptions

  • fglrx installation on Ubuntu

• DebuggingUsplash

• XorgOnTheEdge - for bleeding edge packages

Development Foundations

• 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

• Ubuntu X Development Info

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

  • X/DriverDevelopment - Developing new Xorg drivers for Ubuntu

  • X/DriverBuilding - Building debs of upstream drivers

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

  • X/Blueprints - Specifications of interest for X

  • X/GitUsage - Instructions for using git