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Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
>

>	That won't help you much if you're running X.  There isn't a way to
>have the kernel switch video modes (since it's X itself that does that)
>so you'll be in ddb, but typing blind.  Still useful, if just to type
>"sync" and get a core dump.

If you install the serial boot blocks and attach a box to the serial
console, you can still enter the kernel debugger when you are in X.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/