Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:25:30 +1000 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: james@miller.cs.uwm.edu, fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, grog@lemis.de, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vm fixes NG Message-ID: <199606042325.JAA18513@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199606041650.JAA27039@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 4, 96 09:50:21 am
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>> > > On a related note, is there any way to stop X grabbing the Ctl-Alt >> > > sequence and drop into DDB? >> > >> > We discussed this a while back while talking about ddb. The problem >> > is that it's almost impossible to find a way to set the display card >> > back to text mode. >> >> Syscons seems to be able to do this just fine via <cntl><alt><fx>. It >> would sure be nice to be able to drop into the debugger when running X >> w/o having to switch to another virtual console first. > >Syscons intercepts the key sequence and sends a message to the X server >saying "restore the console to the default mode". Then the X server Actually, for *BSD and Linux (unlike SYSV) the X server intercepts the key sequence and does a VT_ACTIVATE ioctl first, which then causes syscons to send a message to the server. The rest is as you describe. David
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