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>>>>> "m" == Michael  <macallan18@earthlink.net> writes:

    >> framebuffer were smart enough to drop into ddb while X is
    >> running.

     m> This requires someone telling the driver about it.  The
     m> problem with switching consoles is - if one console is in
     m> graphics mode you need to tell the program hogging it to let
     m> go, wait for an ack, then switch.

I guess you were answering another part of my silly rant maybe.  After
a kernel panic you can't unsuspend XFree86 and ask it to do something
for you.  But it works fine on Solaris, and I think it worked at least
for Xsun on NetBSD, right?  It is a software-rendered console, so if
wscons knows where the framebuffer is mapped and the bit depth,
shouldn't that be enough to print ddb> if the kernel takes a panic
while X is running?

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