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Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 59 points 4 months ago (2 children)

A QR code created from the actual fault text would be super helpful. That way we can scan it and get the full error message (details and all) on another device without having to snap a picture or something. But not like windows does it, where it's a link to a defunct page. I'm taking about the actual text transcoded into a QR code.

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I believe the main contributor for drm_panic wants to add one eventually. Here's what it might look like:

DRM panic handler panic screenshot https://gitlab.com/kdj0c/panic_report/-/issues/1

Link if you can't scan

Also it looks like the colours are configurable at compile time (with white on black default).

[–] Brickardo@feddit.nl 8 points 4 months ago

Ah man, I was hoping I'd be rickrolled

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago

This looks EXACTLY as I imagined!

[–] kurumin@linux.community 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And windows shows it for a few seconds, never enough time to pick the phone.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Agreed. Probably the only ~~One of the~~ good thing about the win98 BSOD is that it crashed/froze along with the computer, and the PC required a hard reboot. Yeah, I know, not intentional, but it allowed me to fully read the message.

Edit: crossout

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You have to disable auto reboot on bsod

[–] Otherwise_Direction7@monyet.cc 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This should be the default option when the blue screen happened, giving users chance to scan the QR and find out about the causes before they can try restarting their PC

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Most users don't want to immediately troubleshoot every error, they want to get back to work. The ones that do know how to find it in event viewer or the crash dumps or disable auto reboot on bsod.