Hi Tony.

I really know how to get the serial console to be logged on my notebook, however, as I said, these are seemingly random hangs, and since it is _not_ possible to get the serial to output its last 25 line or so, and I am not willing and not able to always connect the empeg to my notebook, wether it was in car or at home/work, that doesn´t help much. Post-mortem debugging is what would be needed here, but as that will probably never be available on the empeg, better status reports on the VFD should help a bit.
However, as I never read any reports on such system hangs, I suspect my empeg has a hardware problem (I guess a memory problem, which would explain my decoding errors as well, see my bug reports posting that you already answered to). The snippets I am sometimes able to grab from the serial during such a system hang seem to indicate this as well.

cu,
sven