Subject: Re: X freeze on panic (1.4.1_stable w/ wscons)
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/13/1999 16:29:32
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> To switch consoles, you also need to get the video card out of graphics
> mode. Currently, the X server is the only one who knows how to do this,
> so you can't do if it's not running (anymore).

Hum, IC. ISTR that something was added to -current, but I guess i'm
remembering wrong then.


> I would suggest that you disable DDB, and compile kernels with -g,
> so that the problem can be looked at post-mortem using gdb and the
> crashdump.

That's probably what I'll have to do, thanks for the hint.


 - Hubert

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