From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 4 16:29:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22129 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 16:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA22121 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 16:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA18513; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:25:30 +1000 From: David Dawes Message-Id: <199606042325.JAA18513@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Subject: Re: Vm fixes NG To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:25:30 +1000 (EST) Cc: james@miller.cs.uwm.edu, fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, grog@lemis.de, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606041650.JAA27039@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 4, 96 09:50:21 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > > On a related note, is there any way to stop X grabbing the Ctl-Alt >> > > sequence and drop into DDB? >> > >> > 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 intercepts the key sequence and sends a message to the X server >saying "restore the console to the default mode". Then the X server Actually, for *BSD and Linux (unlike SYSV) the X server intercepts the key sequence and does a VT_ACTIVATE ioctl first, which then causes syscons to send a message to the server. The rest is as you describe. David