* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020319 13:49] wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > Of course the nicest thing would be to return the screen to text mode > > automatically when the the kernel debugger is entered, but because X > > controls the video registers I guess that that's not easy or possible. > > [ ... ] > > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure > > that I'm not the only one of us with it. > > Yes, install the GGI port to FreeBSD, and use that instead > of the native FreeBSD console, so that the video driver is > aware of the state it put the card in, and can put it back > into the correct state for the debugger to work. This also > buys you out of the secure-mode hacks that make you leave > certain mmap and /dev/io accesses allowed, even with a > raised secure level, if you are going to be able to use X11. > > The GGI people have bent over backwards on licensing to try > and get the FreeBSD people to adopt this code, but apparently > people are not doing enough console debugging from having > run X11 for this to push its way in.
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