Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:19:15 -0500 (EST) | From | Michael Dale Long <> | Subject | Re: sak-2.1.131.diff |
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > > I guess I should had added a note about that on the help. Or, if anyone > has any alternative scan code, or suggestion..
Personally I think Alt+SysRQ is the most logical choice. Although an alternate assignment for testing might help... ;)
> Yep. But there's not much you can do [0], since the kernel doesn't know > how to properly restore video modes.
There must be some standard way to tell the video card to go back to 80x25 textmode. At least on the i386 architecture. Unfortunately I don't enough about video card programming to know what that would be.
Actually I've been looking at the do_SAK() code and thinking that if it sent SIGHUP, SIGTERM, and finally SIGKILL to the processes that were originally on the console, it would give X time to shut itself down and take care of the problem itself. But a failsafe where the keyboard would be put back in XLATE mode and the video mode restored to text would be nice too.
> > Alt+SysRQ+k incarnation as well. I'd try it to see but I've crashed my > > console enough times for a 24-hour period. ;) > > Doing svgalib stuff? ;)
*chuckle*
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