Subject: Re: kernel debugger
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/14/2000 14:16:45
<steven_grunza@ieee.org> (Steven Grunza) writes:
> How do I break into the kernel debugger? I'm writing a driver for the
> Yamaha sound card in my Dell and suspect the calls to pci_conf_write()
> aren't working. I would like to hit a breakpoint or debugger call in my
> device driver and peek/poke around. Anyone know how to do that? I'm
> working on port-i386.
Press "control-alt-esc", as described in the ddb man page. You'll want
to be at the console, not in X.
- Nathan