From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261825AbTKGXpm (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:45:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261823AbTKGWQb (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:16:31 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:48396 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264408AbTKGP2c (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:28:32 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Suspend to disk panicked in -test9. Date: 7 Nov 2003 15:18:05 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <200310291857.40722.rob@landley.net> <200310291935.28554.elenstev@mesatop.com> <200310292333.06470.rob@landley.net> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1068218285 21656 192.168.12.62 (7 Nov 2003 15:18:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200310292333.06470.rob@landley.net>, Rob Landley wrote: | > In the meantime, keeping a digital camera close by when testing is a | > low tech/high tech solution to this. | | Very few McDonalds have a digital camera behind the register to loan out. I | was lucky they printed out some blank cash register paper for me to write the | panic down on. (Ordinarily, I take notes on my laptop...) If you don't carry a camera then bring a spare laptop ;-) | If this was easily reproducible, I'd recreate it at home under a serial | console. (Well, this being a "modern" laptop with no serial port, maybe I | could I could rig up a parallel port console or something. But the | principle's the same. No, don't ask me why this thing has no serial port but | does have a parallel port. Ask IBM.) I assume because serial mice and printers are rare, parallel printers are not. That said, I would not buy a laptop w/o serial, too useful for other things. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.