From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 11 15:12: 7 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C08514D71; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17168; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:41:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000111165918.F54150@florence.pavilion.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:41:31 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy Cc: brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Kirk McKusick , Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 11-Jan-00 Josef Karthauser wrote: > Does anyone know how to get syscons to kick back to a console > screen if a panic occurs. This would be mighty useful. The short answer is that its impossible. The long answer is that you could possibly do it if the gfx drivers where in the kernel (because they're the only things which know how to kick the video card in the head to change back to text mode) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message