[CLUE-Tech] Any Kernel h4x0r5 out there? Panic - Aieee!

[David Anselmi]

Seems to me the way to approach this is to set up to get a core dump when
the kernel panics.  Then you can read through the dump with a debugger to
see what went wrong.  Alternatively, you might look at recompiling the USB
and/or scanner drivers and see if there's an option to add debugging output
from them.  I'd guess that would go in the kernel log and may show you how
far it gets before the panic.

Unfortunately I've never done the above, so I can't help much beyond that.
Alan should be able to point you in the right direction though ;-)

Dave

"Jed S. Baer" wrote:

> Long story: short ...
>
> I'm trying to get my Microtek V6USL scanner working with USB. I'm about
> to bug the usb-users mailing list, and I'm not getting anywhere with the
> sane-devel mailing list. Maybe I should just e-mail Alan Cox ;-) ?
>
> Well, what it does is barf somewhere in the interrupt handling code.
> Kernel Panic. Box is down. I'd like to somehow capture the output of the
> panic, other than copying it by hand from the screen [er, is that
> necessary?]. (Yeah, sometimes the old fanfold printing consoles would be
> an improvement). Or, if anyone knows how to track down these sorts of
> things, a few words of wisdom would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> jed
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