From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 24 23:56:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles546.castles.com [208.214.165.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7151E15085 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:56:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16702; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910250647.XAA16702@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: a desirable fetaure: syscons reset utility In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:01:43 +0200." <38120617.CA2EA948@we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:47:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I think that many of us have experienced Xserver crashes that > leave the console (display, keyboard, or both) in a unusable state. > Then, we log into the system from a serial terminal or another > networked host and... now what? There is no way for resetting the > console, turning it usable again (or there is?). A small utility capabl= e > of resetting the console would be very useful. What do you think > about this idea, Mr Yokota? :-) We've discussed this before. The end result: forget it. -- = \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message