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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
