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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 1998 05:03:03 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour 
Message-ID:  <761.888314583@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:58:56 %2B0100." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980224105141.18610C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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Andrzej Bialecki wrote in message ID
<Pine.NEB.3.95.980224105141.18610C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>:
> I see. But syscons driver _knows_ how to switch from X to text mode,
> doesn't it?  Even if it *sometimes* fails (because some obscure registers
> are garbled), *most of the time* it produces useful result. This would be
> enough...

Its X, not syscons. X has trapped keyboard events and stopped syscons
from interpreting them.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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