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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R5
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:50:53 +0200
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On Saturday 25 September 2004 22:40, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:38, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > since your lockups occur under X, could you try to disable DRI/DRM in
> > > > your XConfig? Also, would it be possible to connect that box to another
> > > > box via a serial line and enable the kernel's serial console via the
> > > > 'console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty' boot option and run 'minicom' on that
> > > > other box, set the serial line to 38400 baud there too and capture all
> > > > kernel messages that occur when the lockups happens? Also enable the NMI
> > > > watchdog via nmi_watchdog=1.
> > > 
> > > Rui brought up an interesting point on the alsa list.  Is this
> > > procedure possible at all on a new laptop without a legacy serial
> > > port?
> > 
> > well, netconsole should work.
> > 
> 
> OK just to save everyone a google search here is the procedure:
> 
> http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=04/08/14/0236245&mode=thread

You may need this patch:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset%4041470590n9GHsFJI2h0NeYTRXiyWMQ?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-8w

Ciao,

Duncan.