Messages in this thread | | | From | Steven Cole <> | Subject | Re: Suspend to disk panicked in -test9. | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:35:28 -0700 |
| |
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 05:57 pm, Rob Landley wrote: > Unfortunately, while I was writing down the panic on a piece of paper, the > screen blanking code kicked in while I was still copying down the register > values. I remember that the call trace mentioned some variant of a > write_stuff_to_disk call, but that's not that useful... > > When is the last time that the screen blanking code actually accomplished > something useful? These days it seems to exist for the purpose of > destroying panic call traces and annoying people. (I seem to remember that > pressing a key used to make it come back, but now we're forced to use the > input core that no longer seems to be the case...) > > I also seem to remember a patch floating by on the list that would make > console screen blanking go away. I really think console screen blanking > NOT being enabled should be the default these days. Or at the very least, > when there's a panic it should get shut off. I'll add looking into that to > my to-do list, but will probably get to it somewhere around 2009... > > Rob
In the meantime, keeping a digital camera close by when testing is a low tech/high tech solution to this.
Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |