Re: I think I just got a panic

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.10.2004, at 01:07, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :But I was running X at the time :( X froze and stayed there for about 
> 10
> :seconds or something, then the computer rebooted. Probably a panic?
>     It sounds like it auto-rebooted after a crash.  The 10 seconds was
>     probably the 'will reboot after 15 seconds' message on the console
>     which you didn't see because you were in X.

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

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