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Cc: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net>, babkin@users.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: wscons for FreeBSD?
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On Friday 28 October 2005 02:59 pm, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> > I think this might be kind of hard since you really don't know
> > what X has done to the hardware unless you make X talk to the
> > console driver to do everything.
>
> How does MS implement their BSOD display mode?

Their graphics driver stuff is in the kernel and not a separate user process 
like X?

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