Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:13:38 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any way to get machine out of hires when it breaks into DDB> ? Message-ID: <199901262113.QAA01092@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199901262039.MAA21275@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jan 26, 99 12:39:47 pm"
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Matthew Dillon said: > I just had a crash on my workstation. X froze up in the middle of a > redraw, and the machine unresponsive to pings from the outside. > > The thing had dropped into DDB. I really wanted to see what DDB was > trying to tell me so I could fix it, but I couldn't see it since it > was still in X. > > I knew it was in DDB because I could type 'panic' <return> <return> and > the machine rebooted :-) > > It sure wouuld be nice if DDB could restore the video back to VGA. > Anybody have any ideas? > Make a bios call to the video bios :-). (I know that it sounds crazy, but all it should take is saving the state of memory for the bios, and use a trampoline.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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