Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:25:48 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> 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: <199901262225.PAA35349@panzer.plutotech.com> 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 wrote... > 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? That sort of scenario is exactly why my primary desktop machine at home runs with a serial console. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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