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Digital Cameras...

Digital Cameras...

Posted Jan 15, 2009 9:51 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
Parent article: Quotes of the week

I had to laugh reading that, remembering looking around at the company to find a digital
camera with which I could capture that kernel OOPS before hitting reset...


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Digital Cameras...

Posted Jan 15, 2009 15:07 UTC (Thu) by abatters (✭ supporter ✭, #6932) [Link]

Yes, but many oopses annoyingly scroll off the top of the screen, even when using 80x50 text mode. I find serial cables to be much more useful for capturing oopses. For systems without a serial port, maybe we can try the patch for Morse code panics (http://lwn.net/Articles/314507/) and a camcorder.

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