Hi Phil, Thanks for your suggestion of finding and reading the serial-console.txt. It made me realize that I needed to recompile the Knoppmyth kernel with serial console support. Knoppmyth had this support as a loadable module. Now the serial console works. I will leave the terminal running and hopefully capture a last message before the system freezes. The whole system freezes so no ssh or keyboard entry is possible any more. Maybe some driver that gets into an endless loop or something ?
Regards, Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Rowlands Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Need help on serial console for debugging On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Rob van der Ouderaa wrote: >In order to debug random freezeups of mythtv I would like to get a >serial console to work. After much surfing and scratching of the head I >have come to you guys hoping for some pointers. > >I have the following line in my lilo.conf file: > >append="apm=power-off nomce acpi=off noapic console=tty0 >console=ttyS0,9600n8" I assume you've read Documentation/serial-console.txt in the kernel sources. Sounds like you've done all the right things at the TV-box end. What sort of serial cable are you using (should be null-modem), and what's the terminal software at the far end? Cheers, Phil ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
