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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:25:48 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any way to get machine out of hires when it breaks into DDB> ?
Message-ID:  <199901262225.PAA35349@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901262039.MAA21275@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jan 26, 99 12:39:47 pm"

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Matthew Dillon wrote...
>     I just had a crash on my workstation.  X froze up in the middle of a
>     redraw, and the machine unresponsive to pings from the outside. 
> 
>     The thing had dropped into DDB.  I really wanted to see what DDB was
>     trying to tell me so I could fix it, but I couldn't see it since it
>     was still in X.
> 
>     I knew it was in DDB because I could type 'panic' <return> <return> and
>     the machine rebooted :-)
> 
>     It sure wouuld be nice if DDB could restore the video back to VGA.  
>     Anybody have any ideas?


That sort of scenario is exactly why my primary desktop machine at
home runs with a serial console.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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