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| > | >  And since this does not leave a core dump, it's hard
| > | > to identify the cause.
| > | 
| > | You probably need DDB for it.
| > 
| > I'm using X most of the time, so there might be some console output
| > which I am not able to read.  Is it possible to make the panic routine
| > switch to the console?
| 
| Everything else goes to the console.  If you had a panic (but no DDB
| configured), you would have noticed the reboot :).

I'd like to see that there actually _is_ a core dump, to see the
"dumping to dev ..." text.  E.g. this crash does delay for the usual
time to write a core file to the swap device and then reboots, but
savecore does not find any core file upon boot.  But would switching
to the text console require that the kernel has particular knowledge
of the graphics card?

-aage