From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 4 08:00:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19872 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19813 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA07803; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 00:47:36 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606041517.AAA07803@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Vm fixes NG To: james@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jim Lowe) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 00:47:35 +0930 (CST) Cc: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, grog@lemis.de, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199606041314.IAA08738@miller.cs.uwm.edu> from "Jim Lowe" at Jun 4, 96 08:14:06 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Lowe stands accused of saying: > > > > We discussed this a while back while talking about ddb. The problem > > is that it's almost impossible to find a way to set the display card > > back to text mode. > > > Syscons seems to be able to do this just fine via . It > would sure be nice to be able to drop into the debugger when running X > w/o having to switch to another virtual console first. Syscons doesn't do that, the X server does. You could perhaps teach the X server about alt-ctrl-esc, but if the system is wedged, that may not help very much. > -Jim -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[