Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751114AbVKNVwq (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:52:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751274AbVKNVwq (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:52:46 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36243 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271AbVKNVwo (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:52:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:52:29 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos Message-ID: <20051114215229.GA9043@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds References: <200511140302.jAE32voh027313@hera.kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511140302.jAE32voh027313@hera.kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1659 Lines: 34 On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:02:57PM -0800, Linux Kernel wrote: > tree 849707fda27c41466eabae0119d6386826ddb7dc > parent 113fab1386f0093602d9f48b424b945cafd3db23 > author Diego Calleja Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:07:40 -0800 > committer Linus Torvalds Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:14:17 -0800 > > [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Something I've found handy countless times when users do this.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones --- linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~ 2005-11-14 16:47:54.000000000 -0500 +++ linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt 2005-11-14 16:51:02.000000000 -0500 @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than - nothing. + nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you + may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791) + will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb, + so won't help for 'early' oopses) (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/