From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 12:20:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90BCA37B61A for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 12827441; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:15:29 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:15:29 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel debugger and X11. Message-ID: <20020319201528.GI4989@genius.tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r4QXMf6/kyF/FvJJ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --r4QXMf6/kyF/FvJJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 the kernel debugger is entered, but because X controls the video registers I guess that that's not easy or possible. I suppose that the best way is to have a second FreeBSD box and couple them via RS232, but this isn't always convenient. (I seem to have the most time to work on FreeBSD when I'm travelling). Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure that I'm not the only one of us with it. Joe --r4QXMf6/kyF/FvJJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjyXnGAACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZ8agCfZHdgNcL+z0zuJW/76utFus9R aQ4AnAqWgCnQug8yMcgdhNJ9wYOhpwQ5 =G5HP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r4QXMf6/kyF/FvJJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message