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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 1996 00:47:35 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        james@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jim Lowe)
Cc:        fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, grog@lemis.de, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Vm fixes NG
Message-ID:  <199606041517.AAA07803@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199606041314.IAA08738@miller.cs.uwm.edu> from "Jim Lowe" at Jun 4, 96 08:14:06 am

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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 <cntl><alt><fx>.  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

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