Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Josef Karthauser wrote: > That's just what I was looking for; where can I find it? It's not > in the ports. See other posting. As kernel code, it doesn't really lend itself to -ports. 8-). For the code itself: http://people.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ggiport.html -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Yes, install the GGI port to FreeBSD, and use that instead > > of the native FreeBSD console, so that the video driver is > > aware of the state it put the card in, and can put it back > > into the correct state for the debugger to work. This also > > buys you out of t

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:48:35PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Yes, install the GGI port to FreeBSD, and use that instead > of the native FreeBSD console, so that the video driver is > aware of the state it put the card in, and can put it back > into the correct state for the debugger to work.

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020319 13:49] wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > Of course the nicest thing would be to return the screen to text mode > > automatically when the the kernel debugger is entered, but because X > > controls the video registers I guess that that's not easy or po

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Josef Karthauser wrote: > Of course the nicest thing would be to return the screen to text mode > automatically when the the kernel debugger is entered, but because X > controls the video registers I guess that that's not easy or possible. [ ... ] > Does anyone have any working practices around

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 21:36:23 +, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure > > > that I'm not the only one of us with it. > > > > I would recommend just enabli

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Josef Karthauser writes: | > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure | > > that I'm not the only one of us with it. | > | > I would recommend just enabling crash dumps; then it doesn't matter if | > you're in X when the machine panics, and you can get a stack trace

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure > > that I'm not the only one of us with it. > > I would recommend just enabling crash dumps; then it doesn't matter if > you're in X when the machine pan

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 20:15:29 +, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm having some intermittant problems on my laptop that I'd like to > debug, but as I use X11 most of the time it's difficult to use the > kernel debugger when the machine hangs, which is when I'm in X :(. > > Of course the nicest

Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Josef Karthauser
I'm having some intermittant problems on my laptop that I'd like to debug, but as I use X11 most of the time it's difficult to use the kernel debugger when the machine hangs, which is when I'm in X :(. Of course the nicest thing would be to return the screen to text mode automatically when the th