Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:43:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour Message-ID: <199802241843.LAA08255@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980224105141.18610C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Feb 24, 98 10:58:56 am
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> 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... > > Hmm... Or is it the X server who knows how to do it, not the syscons? > But I also vaguely recall something like dump of VGA registers > when booted with -v, so they are stored somewhere, right? No, it does not know. It asks X to put the console back. If you panic, you can't run processes. Like X. 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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