Re: xfree and devel kernels > 2.3.99-pre6

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:22:32 -0400, 
Pete Toscano <[e-mail]> wrote:
>when a crash occurs, nothing gets written to any logs (at least, nothing
>that actually gets written to disk and saved). 
>finally,  kdb.  i've never used it, but i get the impression from what
>i've seen on the list that i need either a printer or serial console
>hooked to my machine.  as i don't have either of these, would it be
>possible to take a xover serial cable and plug it from the serial port
>of my machine to the serial port of another machine and just run minicom
>or something similar on it?

kdb needs a serial console, a printer is no good.  You can dump oops to
a printer but the lack of a keyboard makes it difficult to do any
debugging ;).  In this context, a serial console is anything that looks
like a serial ANSI/vt100 screen.  That can be a real screen or it can
be a modem (including a null modem/cross over cable) to a second
computer.  See Linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt.  Also see
ftp://oss.sgi.org//projects/kdb/download/ix86/kdb-v1.3-2.4.0-test2.gz