Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > > > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > > > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? > > > > The driver itself has to provide support for serial console. If the USB > > serial driver

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? > > > > Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting > > the oops, I need to be dialed

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? The driver itself has to provide support for serial console. If the USB serial driver doesn't (I don't

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting the oops, I need to be dialed out. That

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Wouldn't you know it. I've patched my kernel with kdb and now I can't get it to throw up. Maybe it'll do it once this mail gets sent out like it did last time. I'd prefer a dumper also. I went and grabbed LKCD but it didn't patch cleanly against test12 so I decided against it. dean gaudet

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread dean gaudet
i've always been curious why none of the crash dump patches are default. an oops dumper alone would seem to be most useful. (i know anything more would be unacceptable 'cause linus isn't into debuggers ;) -dean On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > Try reading: > >

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:13:39PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > > /dev/ttyUSB0 as

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Miles Lane
Try reading: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/doc/oops-tracing.txt.html It mentions: Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of these are standard kernel patches so you have to find

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Nope, this didn't fly. Would have been neat if it did work. Maybe it can be made to work for future use? On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Greg KH wrote: > I don't know if /dev/ttyUSBX would work, but I think it would. People > have successfully run consoles through the usb-serial drivers, but I'm > not

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? The driver itself has to provide support for serial

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? > > Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 13:31, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > > > see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. > > > > shift+pageup ? > > the problem with Shift-PgUP is that all the framebuffer drivers I tried > (matrox,

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Wakko Warner
> What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long > oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. Tried using a printer?

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting the oops, I need to be dialed out. That takes out COM1. I

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
No go. Xavier Bestel wrote: > > shift+pageup ? -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alcohol and calculus don't mix.

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On 12 Dec 2000, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long > > oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? > > > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > > see if that'll hold it all when

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
> What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long > oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. shift+pageup ? Xav -

how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. --

how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. --

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. shift+pageup ? Xav - To

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On 12 Dec 2000, Xavier Bestel wrote: What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
No go. Xavier Bestel wrote: shift+pageup ? -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alcohol and calculus don't mix.

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting the oops, I need to be dialed out. That takes out COM1. I

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Wakko Warner
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. Tried using a printer?

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 13:31, Tigran Aivazian wrote: I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. shift+pageup ? the problem with Shift-PgUP is that all the framebuffer drivers I tried (matrox, ati, vesa)

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? The driver itself has to provide support for serial

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Nope, this didn't fly. Would have been neat if it did work. Maybe it can be made to work for future use? On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Greg KH wrote: I don't know if /dev/ttyUSBX would work, but I think it would. People have successfully run consoles through the usb-serial drivers, but I'm not sure

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Miles Lane
Try reading: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/doc/oops-tracing.txt.html It mentions: Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of these are standard kernel patches so you have to find

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:13:39PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread dean gaudet
i've always been curious why none of the crash dump patches are default. an oops dumper alone would seem to be most useful. (i know anything more would be unacceptable 'cause linus isn't into debuggers ;) -dean On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: Try reading:

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Wouldn't you know it. I've patched my kernel with kdb and now I can't get it to throw up. Maybe it'll do it once this mail gets sent out like it did last time. I'd prefer a dumper also. I went and grabbed LKCD but it didn't patch cleanly against test12 so I decided against it. dean gaudet