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Date:      Thu, 1 May 2008 09:24:01 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20080501092401.6f197633@deskjail>
In-Reply-To: <200804250914.47667.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200804211817.m3LIHm97031507@repoman.freebsd.org> <200804230907.24247.jhb@freebsd.org> <200804250914.47667.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Quoting "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> (Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:14:37 +0930):

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, John Baldwin wrote:
> > As far as panics in X are concerned, that is a bug in the console
> > driver that it doesn't just abort ddb already and write out a dump
> > and reboot.  I've been disabling ddb on panics via tunable as a
> > workaround on my laptop to get crashdumps during panics in X.
> 
> How hard would this be to fix properly? :)

The X11-guys moved the mode switching from the X server to the linux
kernel. In case we would do the same, would this allow us to switch
when entering ddb? No, I don't volunteer, I just point out what may be
a proper solution, and what we may have to do anyway at some point.

Bye,
Alexander.

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