From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 20 19:44:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B5637B416 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0111.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.111] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16z7L9-0006OG-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:44:35 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC22776.CD4B8EB9@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:44:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Entering DDB from X11 References: <200204202133.g3KLXFJ80571@orthanc.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > I've been having problems with a machine locking up while running X11, > and the usual console break sequence doesn't work. Is there a way to > break to the kernel debugger from X11? Or am I stuck with wiring > up a serial port console? This comes up every so often, I'm surprised you didn't find it in the mailing list archives when you searched on the terms "DDB" and "X11"... Use the GGI port for FreeBSD, and run X that way. GGI knows how to put the video card back into a known state from the X11 state, which is required in order to run the debugger. Or wire a serial console. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message