Pavel
Wed Jul 23 13:03:57 CDT 2008
For XP, you still have Softice :) at least, it worked on SP2.
--PA
Scott Noone wrote:
> I do love my X300, but the lack of PCMCIA, 1394, and serial is a pain. I was
> wondering what I would do if the time ever came to debug it, so interesting
> that you're in this situation :)
>
> Are you aware of all the restrictions in using USB to debug? The two big
> ones are:
>
> 1) Target must be Vista (I picked the XP option, so I'm really hosed.)
>
> 2) HC must support kernel debugging. And I quote from the WinDBG
> documention:
>
> "Not all EHCI-compatible controllers have this support, and there is no
> programmatic method to determine whether a given computer does have this
> support."
>
> I have no idea if the HC in the X300 supports kernel debugging, so you might
> want to try exploring that.
>
> You don't say what kind of issue you're having on the laptop, so it's hard
> to recommend something that would help you in this particular scenario. But,
> as you've guessed, you don't really have many other alternatives. If you've
> instrumented your driver with good tracing then using one of the various
> DbgPrint capture applications (or TraceView if you bothered with WPP) may be
> your best bet.
>
> We've also had luck in the past with customers sending a VMWare image of the
> problematic machines created with VMWare Converter. This of course only
> makes sense if your driver is software only (or possibly USB) and if it is a
> timing sensitive issue then you might not see the problem.
>
> -scott
>
> --
> Scott Noone
> Software Engineer
> OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
>
http://www.osronline.com
>
>
> "P." <alias@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:899B8731-77B0-4B83-A116-269AF8E92178@microsoft.com...
>> [Apologies for cross posting, I forgot to add the device drivers group
>> when I posted in windbg]
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> We have a problem with a driver that is only reproducable on a Lenovo X300
>> notebook.
>> The X300 has no serial, no 1394, no docking station, and no PCMCIA.
>>
>> The only usable port left to try is USB, but using Ajays USB debug cable
>> we also had no luck.
>>
>> Has anybody been able to get USB based kernel debugging working with the
>> X300?
>> Anything else we could try?
>>
>> Regards
>> P.