From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 06:47:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA03518 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA03513 Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id JAA01208; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id JAA21002; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:47:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:47:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Greg Lehey cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: request for a new "feature" as regards DDB In-Reply-To: <199604231000.MAA20823@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>>> So...any way of having an auto-switch to vt0 if the system > >>>> crashes with DDB enabled? > > > > Use syscons. > > I don't understand. Are you saying "syscons auto-switches to vt0 if > the system crashes with DDB enabled", or are you saying "if you use > syscons, you can still change after entering DDB", or are you saying > something else? > Something I found out with this mornings system panic...even with pcvt, you can switch between vt's. I don't know why yesterday after I couldn't, but I would think that the hang yesterday was something more then just a system panic :( As far as the suggestion to use syscons is concerned...has it recently been modified to support vt100 nicely? Does cons50 have the same functionality? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org