Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932146AbVKNV4e (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:56:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751301AbVKNV4K (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:56:10 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:42441 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932146AbVKNV4E (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:56:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:56:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Dave Jones cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos In-Reply-To: <20051114215229.GA9043@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <200511140302.jAE32voh027313@hera.kernel.org> <20051114215229.GA9043@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1908 Lines: 45 On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > 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 I've mentioned that a few times also (to bug reporters), but your doc. is better than mine was. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap > --- 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 > - -- ~Randy - 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/