Re: [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:02:57PM -0800, Linux Kernel wrote:
 > tree 849707fda27c41466eabae0119d6386826ddb7dc
 > parent 113fab1386f0093602d9f48b424b945cafd3db23
 > author Diego Calleja <diegocg@xxxxxxxxx> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:07:40 -0800
 > committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:14:17 -0800
 > 
 > [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos
 > 
 > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
 > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>

Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~	2005-11-14 16:47:54.000000000 -0500
+++ linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt	2005-11-14 16:51:02.000000000 -0500
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have 
     has restarted.  Messy but it is the only option if you have not
     planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of
     the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than
-    nothing.
+    nothing.  If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you
+    may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791)
+    will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb,
+    so won't help for 'early' oopses)
 
 (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
     run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there
-
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