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

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

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 panics,

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 and

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 enabling crash

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 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.