From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 02:03:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA08609 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:03:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c243.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA08600 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:03:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA00765; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 05:03:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:58:56 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 05:03:03 -0500 Message-ID: <761.888314583@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote in message ID : > I see. But syscons driver _knows_ how to switch from X to text mode, > doesn't it? Even if it *sometimes* fails (because some obscure registers > are garbled), *most of the time* it produces useful result. This would be > enough... Its X, not syscons. X has trapped keyboard events and stopped syscons from interpreting them. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message