Brian J. Murrell wrote on Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:51:54AM -0400 : > > But with 2.4.18.10mdk-1-1mdk, when I try to run xawtv the box hangs > and the CAPS LOCK and SCROLL LOCK LEDs are blinking in unison. I have > to reboot. > Any ideas? Anything more I can tell you? Any tests you want me to > run?
All it's doing is dropping you into the kernel debugger. From the man
page:
While kdb is active, the keyboard (not serial console)
indicators may strobe. The caps lock and scroll lock
lights will turn on and off, num lock is not used because
it can confuse laptop keyboards where the numeric keypad
is mapped over the normal keys. On exit from kdb the
keyboard indicators will probably be wrong, they will not
match the kernel state. Pressing caps lock twice should
get the indicators back in sync with the kernel.
So the command "go" should restart execution. The fact that it started
kdb should show that something is amiss though and it will probably fail
shortly thereafter.
cd /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kdb
man ./kdb.mm
All of the commands are a couple of pages down from the top.
If I'm saying things that you already know, my apologies. You seemed to
be asking what the two blinking LED's mean.
Blue skies... Todd
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Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
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