Re: [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos

Dave Jones
2005-11-14T21:52:46Z

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:02:57PM -0800, Linux Kernel wrote:
> tree 849707fda27c41466eabae0119d6386826ddb7dc
> parent 113fab1386f0093602d9f48b424b945cafd3db23
> author Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:07:40 -0800
> committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:14:17 -0800
>
> [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--- linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~ 2005-11-14 16:47:54.000000000 -0500
+++ linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt 2005-11-14 16:51:02.000000000 -0500
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have
has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not
planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of
the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than
- nothing.
+ nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you
+ may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791)
+ will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb,
+ so won't help for 'early' oopses)

(2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there