On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:38:20PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >I have a STAudio DSP24 mkII and I have noticed that recent changes(after > >NOV 13) in the CVS creates an ICE1712 driver that locks up my kernel. > >Instead of just complaining about this problem I thought I might try to > >narrow down the location in the driver that is causing the lockup. > > > >Does anyone have any tips on debugging the driver modules? Is anyone > >using a debugger to do this? I have looked at UML, but I am not sure if > >there is a way to access the sound hardware with it. > > use the "single" kernel option on the boot command line. this will > shorten start up times considerably. once you're at the shell prompt, > mount any necessary filesystems by hand, modprobe the drivers, and > test using a console window. i generally find that this shortens the > crash-reboot-edit-recompile-reboot-crash cycle by a factor of at least > three. mount any filesystems that don't need to be writable with the > "ro" option so that any crash leaves them untouched.
Couldn't "user mode linux" be used to avoid the "reboot" stage? matthias ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
