Subject: Re: Booting, Debugging
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/23/2001 11:08:12
Mutt made me believe that Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:53:13PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > At 12:50 AM 2/23/2001 +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> > >   How do I get into DDB? The "programmer's button" doesn't
> > >seem to have any effect. (I have here a hard hang after accessing
> > >a USB-scanner so I wanted DDB to find out where it hangs)
> > 
> > bad news, running DDB on mac with a USB keyboard doesn't seem
> > to work.
> 
> It mostly works in that sense.  That is, if it panics or otherwise
> crashes in most locations, it will successfully go into DDB and you
> can poke around.  The problem is when you enter DDB via the keyboard;
> it toasts the USB stack.

By the way -- is there some way to enter DDB from internal keyboard on
a powerbook? If so, what keys do I have to press?

Bye,
 Thomas

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