Subject: Re: options XSERVER_DDB
To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: current-users
Date: 01/27/2000 22:52:26
jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us said:
> If you're running wscons, "options XSERVER_DDB" appears to have no
> effect at all.  It's only apparently checked by the pccons driver. 

I've never understood what this option could be good for.
Within X, one doesn't want to enter DDB, at least not if
the system console is the same as the X screen, because
generally no characters can be displayed by the kernel.
So only with a serial console, but then we have BREAK to
get into DDB.

best regards
Matthias