From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 10:43:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14197 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:43:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14191 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:43:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24796; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:43:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd024753; Tue Feb 24 11:43:08 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08255; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:43:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802241843.LAA08255@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:43:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Feb 24, 98 10:58:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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... > > Hmm... Or is it the X server who knows how to do it, not the syscons? > But I also vaguely recall something like dump of VGA registers > when booted with -v, so they are stored somewhere, right? No, it does not know. It asks X to put the console back. If you panic, you can't run processes. Like X. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message