USB camera causing OS crash?

[Julian Elischer]

Mark Ovens wrote:

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>> you probably need to run with ddb, kdb and a serial console, or at 
>> least from the console, outside of
>> X11 so you can see the error messages. The system will not go int ddb 
>> if the console is being controlled by X11.
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> I guess I can't do that then as I don't have serial console and can 
> only force the crash from within X - and there's no time to switch 
> back to the console before it hangs. 


can you run the program with $DISPLAY set to another machine?

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> Regards,
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> Mark