Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:00:02 +0100 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: > There is a patch for this. However its fairly useless since all the > users are in X11 and while -ac will give you morse as well thats not > terribly friendly.
> There are some real mode patches that try and get you back into a sane > video mode and dump you into a saner environment.
Why change video mode? As long as X told the kernel what it's doing, we know how to drive a linear framebuffer and in fact a few other types of framebuffers. In the 'oh shit' case we could at least _attempt_ to spew our dying splutter onto the screen.
-- dwmw2
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