On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Jelle Kalf wrote: >I've turned on that magic sysrq in the kernel, recompiled and tried to >see if it shows anything on the first console screen. Perhaps I'm doing >it wrong, because the system just freezes, nothing no message on the >screen. I've tried cat /dev/video0 or 1 to a file or 24 to /dev/dsp, >but I can't get any sound.
Enabling SysRq support doesn't by itself do anything, but allows certain inspection and/or recovery if the system locks up "hard". See Documentation/sysrq.txt in the kernel tree for the details. If, however, there's nothing printed on the console at lockup, I'd start to suspect hardware errors. Cheers, Phil ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
