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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:54:53 -0500 Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Linus did say that he would do anything within reason to help desktop > linux forward, and frankly a big step forward would be to get error > messages to the user. What might be some safe options for overriding, > switching away from, killing, or otherwise disposing of the X server > when an unrecoverable Oops is about to occur on the TTY? Assuming frame buffer support is present in the kernel you need an ioctl that specifies the frame buffer depth/layout so the kernel can print correctly on it. At that point most of the time you'll get the report out - more than trying to mode switch probably. Send patches Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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