Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:37:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour Message-ID: <199802240937.CAA04990@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980224094333.4164A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Feb 24, 98 09:48:12 am
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> Many people (including me) suffered from panic while their console was in > graphic mode (e.g. X Window). I don't know if this would be proper place > to do this, but in case of panic (where everything is lost anyway) just > add there the code to forcefully reset the video card to set it in > known (and useful) mode... See the numerous "DDX in the kernel" discussions in the -current list archives to see why "just add there the code to forcefully reset the video card" requires knowing how the video card got in the mode it's in, and specific knowledge of the card (hint: write-only hardware registers not shadoewed in RAM). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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