Is there a way to slow down the screen when displaying verbose information during startup? I'm using puppy 4.31 or 5.01 (live CD) and both have the same problem where a bunch of information goes by too fast then it begins doing some debug routines and hangs. I think there is an error message somewhere in the stuff that goes by, but there's no way to see it without slowing it down. In old DOS you could add a switch to a listing to make it display information a page at a time. Is there any way to do this?
The computer is an Intel DQ965GF with a P4@3Ghz single-core, hyperthreaded CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 120GB hard disc. I recently added an ATI PCIe video card and I think it is the source of the problem. I pulled it out and it booted ok so finding the error message if any is important.
slow down verbose screen?
Yes, but the error is happening right after the networking device is probed and there's a pause of variable length. The network device is found, the problem occurs, and then the text goes by at warp speed with a bunch of what looks like hex numbers. If I mistime it hitting the pause button I have to restart and try again. This is time consuming and I've yet to make it work.jafadmin wrote:Have you tried pressing the "Pause" or "Scroll Lock" keys?
Then it hangs, but the information at that point is just a stack dump or something. A bunch of binary in groups of eight. The only thing I can make out is something about a page fault.
Is there a way to make this verbatim information go to some kind of log file that is persistant after I reboot? That'd work.
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Mercedes350se
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This pauses it, but I still need lightening-quick reflex to stop it at the right point. So far 0/2 attempts. I'm just going to return the ATI video card; it's faulty memory or something from what little I can discern from the information that I can see. I got it from a store Goodwill computer store and I can exchange it. It won't work under windows or any other version of Linux either so it must be bad.Mercedes350se wrote:Try pressing Ctrl-s to stop the scrolling and then Ctrl-q to continue.
Ctrl-s means pressing the Control key and the s key at the same time.
Thanks for the help anyway.
[edit]It's not the card. I swapped to another of the same make/model and the thing is still having this problem. I've narrowed it down that it's occuring when Xwin tried to start or probe the video hardware.
How do I gather the information so I can post it to get help?
I need to post this in another forum too, I think.
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