Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

[Vivek Periaraj <vivek.periaraj@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote:
> Then it can be royaly freezing (a soft kernel freeze) not just X. If 
> you get no useful logs, you may need a second computer attached to one 
> of the serial ports of your main system (the one that crashes) to 
> catch something...

Or you can use 'netconsole' to capture the last few lines of the dying 
kernel. You need a second computer listening on a port on ethernet 
interface.

I had problems with i915 and this is what I did to find out the root 
cause of the problem.

V.

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