Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:34:48 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel debugger and X11. Message-ID: <20020319143448.A44276@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020319201528.GI4989@genius.tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:15:29PM %2B0000 References: <20020319201528.GI4989@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 20:15:29 +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm having some intermittant problems on my laptop that I'd like to > debug, but as I use X11 most of the time it's difficult to use the > kernel debugger when the machine hangs, which is when I'm in X :(. > > Of course the nicest thing would be to return the screen to text mode > automatically when the the kernel debugger is entered, but because X > controls the video registers I guess that that's not easy or possible. > > I suppose that the best way is to have a second FreeBSD box and couple > them via RS232, but this isn't always convenient. (I seem to have the > most time to work on FreeBSD when I'm travelling). > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure > that I'm not the only one of us with it. I would recommend just enabling crash dumps; then it doesn't matter if you're in X when the machine panics, and you can get a stack trace and look at things once the machine reboots. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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