On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:41:13AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
AFAIK with a single dual-headed card that is not possible. With two
cards it might work, provided that the video driver in X can drive the
second card without ever touching the legacy VGA I/O space (since that
can be enabled for
Max A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
btw, with a dual-head video card and two monitors is it possible to
have X showing on one monitor and text console on the other (to get a
kernel panic message printed out there)?
There is the xconsole application:
DESCRIPTION
The xconsole program
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:01:28PM -0800, Max A. wrote:
Why kernel in the case of panic cannot simply switch the screen to the
text mode and print out a message there?
Because that is quite a complex task on a modern graphics card. Usually
there is no way to switch to a mode (be it text or
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:36:53PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:01:28PM -0800, Max A. wrote:
Why kernel in the case of panic cannot simply switch the screen to the
text mode and print out a message there?
Because that is quite a complex task on a modern graphics
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:01:28PM -0800, Max A. wrote:
I'd like to learn a reason for this kernel panic but I'm using X and
cannot afford waiting in the text console for hours in hope to get
this kernel panic. Moreover, it may be crucial for kernel panic to
have X running.
Why kernel in the
Maybe it's just the kernel telling you the reason via CapsLock LED morse code ?
IIRR there was such a emergency module in 2.6.19 devel branch.
I'm sorry ;) Finally, keep it with humor
Good luck anyway, Micha
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On 12/7/06, Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there are patches to print panic messages to the frame buffer if
it is in use; but that still requires the X server to be configured to
use the kernel-provided frame buffer, and that can be quite slow (and it
also has other problems like
If you don't have a serial cable, but you do have another computer on
the network, why don't you try netconsole?
http://lisa.cs.uni-potsdam.de/lxr/source/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
I usually boot into single user mode, load the module with appropriate
options, then continue into
Max A. wrote:
I'm having trouble with the recently released kernel 2.6.19 from
kernel.org. With kernel 2.6.19 installed (my custom build from
sources), my system freezes at random points within several hours
after reboot.
A noticeable symptom is blinking CapsLock and ScrollLock keybord leds
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:30:37AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
Sounds like another reason to have a serial console.
Or netconsole (esp. in case of newer laptops without any serial ports),
but in both cases _ONLY IF_ you have something to attach at the other
end of the cable. The big problem is
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:06:10PM -0800, Max A. wrote:
btw, with a dual-head video card and two monitors is it possible to
have X showing on one monitor and text console on the other (to get a
kernel panic message printed out there)?
AFAIK with a single dual-headed card that is not possible.
On 12/7/06, Stephen Olander Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you don't have a serial cable, but you do have another computer on
the network, why don't you try netconsole?
http://lisa.cs.uni-potsdam.de/lxr/source/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
I usually boot into single user mode,
On 12/7/06, Emmanuel Fleury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should compile your kernel with:
Kernel Hacking -- Magic SysRq key
This will give you the opportunity to get a better hang on your computer
even in case of kernel panic. Read Documentation/sysrq.txt
How can it help if a kernel
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 07:27:16PM -0800, Max A. wrote:
Does it work with a wireless network connection?
It does work with any kind of network adapter.
I am using ndiswrapper with win64 broadcom driver. Will it be able to
send out a packet in the case of kernel panic?
Ndiswrapper is broken
I'm having trouble with the recently released kernel 2.6.19 from
kernel.org. With kernel 2.6.19 installed (my custom build from
sources), my system freezes at random points within several hours
after reboot.
A noticeable symptom is blinking CapsLock and ScrollLock keybord leds
(but not NumLock).
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:43:18AM -0800, Max A. wrote:
I'm having trouble with the recently released kernel 2.6.19 from
kernel.org. With kernel 2.6.19 installed (my custom build from
sources), my system freezes at random points within several hours
after reboot.
A noticeable symptom is
I noticed this blinking yesterday, during an unrelated kernel panic
(disk driver wasn't there).
The kernel was complaining about the keyboard's interrupt and the blinks
were in sync with that message.
Max A. wrote:
I'm having trouble with the recently released kernel 2.6.19 from
kernel.org.
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