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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:41:31 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000112094131.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000111165918.F54150@florence.pavilion.net>

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On 11-Jan-00 Josef Karthauser wrote:
>  Does anyone know how to get syscons to kick back to a console
>  screen if a panic occurs.  This would be mighty useful.

The short answer is that its impossible.

The long answer is that you could possibly do it if the gfx drivers
where in the kernel (because they're the only things which know how to
kick the video card in the head to change back to text mode)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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