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Re: I think I just got a panic


To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:52:53 +0100

Matthew Dillon wrote:
:maybe we should add an emergency video and keyboard reset to panic(). I :think that's a better way than trying to guess what video mode is :running and adopt to that (or such), like other operating systems try :to do (linux). we could even make a pinkscreen! (or redscreen, or :bluescreen!)
:
:cheers
: simon


    Unfortunately that might be difficult, because only X really knows how
    to properly reset the video, and only X really knows how to render to
    the frame buffer.  We could attempt to make the appropriate video BIOS
    calls but it's a toss-up whether they would actually work.

-Matt

I think you lost me there :-) I woke up this morning and it had done the buildworld/kernel without a panic, with X running in the background. Should I installworld and just hope it was a bug that was maybe fixed between the September ISO snapshot and STABLE?


I will play about and try to get a grip with debugging kernels when I get home, incase I experience any other panics.



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