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Date:      Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:41:13 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: syscons joy: reproduceable panic on resolution change
Message-ID:  <200504261441.14507.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050417025742.H93987@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>
References:  <20050415063120.G93987@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <200504161349.39693.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050417025742.H93987@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>

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On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:00 am, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:18, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >> I am currently 40 miles (64 km) away from this system so it is sort of
> >> hard to switch VTs. I do have ssh access to the machine and the corefile
> >> that I obtained. I can spend some time this weekend trying to figure out
> >> a SoE for this... Wish me luck!
> >
> > Does vidcontrol -s X cause the problem?
>
> Locally, it works just fine. At the serial console, it yields the
> "Inapproriate ioctl for device" message that one would expect.

You can use 'vidcontrol -s X < /dev/ttyv0' as root I think.

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