how to capture long oops w/o having second machine
Quoted 10 lines · Tigran Aivazian
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I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today.
shift+pageup ?
the problem with Shift-PgUP is that all the framebuffer drivers I tried (matrox, ati, vesa) corrupt the screen when it is used. The only way to use Shift-PgUp reliably I have ever seen was on vgacon. These bugs seemed to be there for years so I didn't even bother reporting them - I just got used to the idea "using fb? forget the Shift-PgUP then".
Do not hit 'shift-pgup' while penguin logo is on the screen. Something somewhere is wrong... (and never hit shift-pgdn; shift-pgup corrupts screen while shift-pgdn corrupts kernel memory)
Or better, boot with 'video=scrollback:0' (*). I think that we should make this default for 2.4, as (except this problem) scrollback code is broken for multihead and fix is not trivial.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]
(*) With matrox in 8bpp you'll get almost always bigger and faster scrollback with 'video=scrollback:0' than with default 'scrollback:32768' ...
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