Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:27:13PM +1300, Dave Sainty wrote:
> > No-one is going to be surprised to switch to a text console with DDB if
> > they hit C-M-ESC, just grateful :) And it's a keystroke that people already
> > know.
>
> The problem is that it doesn't *switch* to a text console. It kicks the
> VGA device into shape and if you want to continue, the system is very
> likely to end up in DDB soon enough again.

        Could it revoke all access to the relevant video device, so next
        time X tries to read/write the hardware it aborts?

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