> Scrollback rarely works as planned, for me. Overall, a balance must be > found. > > More information is more helpful. But. > > There are downsides to spewing everything possible, upon error. You > cause logging to the possibly problematic disk, you push older messages > out of the printk ring buffer, etc., etc.
Get yourself a Voodoo5 or similar card cheap off ebay. The firmware on most of them doesn't clear the top 30MB of RAM on a reboot/PCI reset which makes them excellent debug buffers providing you empty the buffer before you run the X server. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
