Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932411AbWAFBlu (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:41:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932442AbWAFBlu (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:41:50 -0500 Received: from filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu ([130.245.126.2]:35773 "EHLO filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932411AbWAFBlt (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:41:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:41:40 -0500 From: Josef Sipek To: David Lang Cc: Dave Jones , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops pauser. Message-ID: <20060106014140.GG5516@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <20060105045212.GA15789@redhat.com> <20060105103339.GG20809@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 35 On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:24:01PM -0800, David Lang wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > > >> (*) If the oops is longer than 25 lines, ... you can't even use > >scrollback > >> because scrollback is cleared when you change consoles. X runs by default > >> on tty7, and the kernel dumps it somewhere else. (And even if it dumped > >to > >> tty7 directly, you would not see it.) > > > >What to do about oopses whilst in X has been the subject of much > >head-scratching for years now. It's come up at least at the > >last two kernel summits, and I'll hazard a guess it'll come up > >again this year. The amount of work necessary to make it all > >work on both kernel side and X side isn't unsubstantial however, > >so I wouldn't count on it working too soon. > > hmm, if you can hope that someone will grab a camera to report an oops, > how about them grabbing a tape recorder/mp3 recorder to record audio from > the speaker. it's not fast, but you don't have that much data to output, > do it in morse (with the audio explination of what's going to happen > first) There is a patch somewhere that uses the keyboard lights to "display" panics, and a comment that the PC speaker implementation is left up to the reader :) It shouldn't be hard do, then all you need is just one printk telling the user to record it :) Jeff. - 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/