Subject: Re: 2.0beta freezes
To: Denis Lagno <dlagno@smtp.ru>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/13/2004 15:19:23
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:43:09PM +0400, Denis Lagno 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.
> 
> I thought that kernel config options XSERVER_DDB
> have to do something with that?
	uh.. I think that just allows the ctrl-alt-esc sequence to work.  But
actuall, I'm not sure.  There's no documentation about what it does.

eric