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> Sadly this is not true.  You need as much chipset support as you would
> for X.  However, it can be done in userland w/o kernel bloat.

Until you go to drop into the kernel debugger from a panic running
X... then it's a bit hard to continue running the user space code
to restore the hardware state to one usable by the debugger. 8-P.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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