In message <Pine.NEB.4.63.0602081938160.18790@discovery.invisible.ca>, "Jared D
. McNeill" writes:
>Hey folks. I've been hacking on the i386 vesa_raster8 code in 
>arch/i386/bios/ for the past few days. I have it attaching to wsdisplay 
>and working as a default console. Some nice parts:
>
>  * Splash screen support in the vesarasterviii driver
>    (This will be moved to dev/rasops at some point)
>  * If the kernel panics while X is running, you can still interact with
>    DDB. Yay!
>
>Anyway, it's a work in progress, but feel free to play with my patches in 
>the meantime. More information is available here:
>
>   http://www.invisible.ca/core/VESA_Framebuffer_console_in_NetBSD
>

How about a command to reset to VGA mode if X doesn't when shutting 
down?  (I think, but am not yet certain, that xorg 6.9 is doing that to 
me on one of my machines.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb