>From the keyboard of Kenneth Stailey:

> When X is running and I get a panic the video does not go back to text
> mode.

There is a discussion on this subject on the freebsd-hackers list currently.

A short term solution would be to disable DDB in case an X server is running
and dump to disk immediately.

Another solution would be (if it were possible) to call the BIOS to re-init
the text mode, but as Thomas Roell pointed out, there are still some problems
with this approach.

The only solution i see right now is to use a serial console.

hellmuth
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