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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH-mm] i8042: activate panic blink only in X
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On 04 Sep 2006 16:58:33 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

>Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is an attempt to make panicblink only active in X so there is a
>> chance of keyboard still working after panic in text console. Any reason
>> why is should not be done this way?
>>
>
>Looks good to me.
>
>Of course it would be even better to fix the panic stuff to not disrupt scrollback,
>but short of that it's a good idea.
>
>-Andi (original panic blink author)

I'd like to have panic blink and also be able to Shft-Up to previous
console screens.

If possible, kill the console blank timer too? (dunno if you have).

Example: Oops screen on 2.4 recently I paged up to where the fault
started, the screen blanker kicked in while I was hand copying info
and wiped previous screens :( Caused significant delay in working
out what the issue was (slackware-10.2 2.4.33.1 glibc nptl boo-boo).

Is it safe / easy to do on oops/panic?

Grant.
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