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    SubjectRe: Overriding X on panic
    On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:10:43PM +0000, Alan wrote:
    > > modesettings to use can still be in userspace, the execution of the
    > > series of IO's would be in the kernel, and the kernel would store
    > > bundles of settings, including a "rescue" one, but also for
    > > suspend/resume...
    >
    > The mode switch sequences for modern cards are a bit more hairy than
    > lists of I/O poking unfortunately.

    The int 10 call to get back to text mode generally seems to work, but,
    uh. Yeah. Maybe not.

    (I'm sure nobody would /really/ object to linking x86emu into the
    kernel...)
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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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