superkuh2
March 4th, 2014, 11:28 PM
Hi. For the last couple of years I've been encountering a growing number of Firefox browser induced crashes of my entire (fglrx) X 1.7.6 desktop on Ubuntu lucid. I'll be viewing some complex website in Firefox (versions 18 through 25) and quite suddenly my screen will go black for a second before I'm presented with a gdm login screen and session. The incidents are very easy to replicate.
For a long time I thought this was a manifestation of the X 1.7.6 pixmap crash ( X segfault in miCopyRegion / fbCopyNtoN ) referenced at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/539772 due to the similarity in my syslog messages correlated with the times of the crashes. But I compiled xorg-server-core 1.7.6 from apt-get source xserver-xorg-core and applied the suggested patches at,
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=server-1.7-nominations&id=2c94da4e22520f4a3e783db06b73251131382868
I tested after successful installation and while it did make the suspect syslog error messages go away X still crashed. So I figure I need 1.8.
1.8 used to be available as a xorg-edgers PPA package for lucid. But those binaries seem to have been deleted from the site even though they once existed. Ubuntu lucid X.org 1.8 ghost packages: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+build/1852863
So, my question, does anyone have access to these 1.8 binary packages for lucid anymore? Would they share them?
Alternately I'll be trying to build 1.8 from source. I think this would be filled with pitfalls so I hope not to do it. Building source from Ubuntu repos is one thing and building from git is another. So links to actual guides or examples of compiling 1.8 from git for/on any version of ubuntu would be very much appreciated too.
Thanks for your time. And yes, I know, I should upgrade to a supported version. I have my reasons.
For a long time I thought this was a manifestation of the X 1.7.6 pixmap crash ( X segfault in miCopyRegion / fbCopyNtoN ) referenced at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/539772 due to the similarity in my syslog messages correlated with the times of the crashes. But I compiled xorg-server-core 1.7.6 from apt-get source xserver-xorg-core and applied the suggested patches at,
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=server-1.7-nominations&id=2c94da4e22520f4a3e783db06b73251131382868
I tested after successful installation and while it did make the suspect syslog error messages go away X still crashed. So I figure I need 1.8.
1.8 used to be available as a xorg-edgers PPA package for lucid. But those binaries seem to have been deleted from the site even though they once existed. Ubuntu lucid X.org 1.8 ghost packages: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+build/1852863
So, my question, does anyone have access to these 1.8 binary packages for lucid anymore? Would they share them?
Alternately I'll be trying to build 1.8 from source. I think this would be filled with pitfalls so I hope not to do it. Building source from Ubuntu repos is one thing and building from git is another. So links to actual guides or examples of compiling 1.8 from git for/on any version of ubuntu would be very much appreciated too.
Thanks for your time. And yes, I know, I should upgrade to a supported version. I have my reasons.