Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Suspend to disk panicked in -test9. | Date | 7 Nov 2003 15:18:05 GMT |
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In article <200310292333.06470.rob@landley.net>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
| > In the meantime, keeping a digital camera close by when testing is a | > low tech/high tech solution to this. | | Very few McDonalds have a digital camera behind the register to loan out. I | was lucky they printed out some blank cash register paper for me to write the | panic down on. (Ordinarily, I take notes on my laptop...)
If you don't carry a camera then bring a spare laptop ;-)
| If this was easily reproducible, I'd recreate it at home under a serial | console. (Well, this being a "modern" laptop with no serial port, maybe I | could I could rig up a parallel port console or something. But the | principle's the same. No, don't ask me why this thing has no serial port but | does have a parallel port. Ask IBM.)
I assume because serial mice and printers are rare, parallel printers are not. That said, I would not buy a laptop w/o serial, too useful for other things. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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