>> Would this be acceptable for filing a crash report, or is this out of
>> your scope?
> 
> If you can type in the text, that should be fine. Don't expect multiple
> developers to try and make head or tail of a .jpg though...
> 
> As mentioned here recently, if the machine is rebooted rather than
> power-cycled (type 'boot r' at ddb> prompt after tr/ps) you might find
> the information still available in dmesg. (If you want to test whether
> this is likely to work before asking someone to type things, reboot
> yourself and see if you get two sets of startup messages displayed in
> dmesg).
> 
> 

Also a useful way to get textual screen output is to setup your system
to use a serial console rather than VGA. Then provided you have another
box you can just use your console emulator's copy or save options.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SerCon

SteveW

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