Re: VGA driver changes for machines without built-in font

Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:20:21 +0900 (JST)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arc,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:

> > Changes:
> > - Add an MI function vga_reset(), which initialize all VGA registers
> >   to set it up into text mode (mode 3: 640x400/31.5kHz/70Hz).
> 
> Could we call vga_reset() or something to switch to the master text 
> console from panic().  It'd be nice to have a clue as to why the panic 
> happened when you're running X11.

I don't know what Xservers actually do, but I doubt
we can handle all quirks of chipsets and Xservers.
It's always better to use serial console for kernel debugging..
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Izumi Tsutsui
[email protected]