Subject: Re: DDB/pcvt
To: NetBSD-current Users <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcswork.hcs.de>
List: current-users
Date: 10/20/1994 13:57:47
>From the keyboard of Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com:
> When is DDB/pcvt/pccons going to put your video mode back to text and
> restore the keyboard when you drop into the debugger while under X?
I don't know when [ ;-) ] but this would be a good thing (tm).
I think it would be possible for pcvt to detect this situation and take the
appropriate actions, i.e.:
if(there is kernel type output for pcvt)
{
if(the current active window is an X screen)
{
switch kbd back from x to char mode;
switch to char mode vt0;
}
}
There seems to be no need to switch back to X, or ... ?
On the other side this would blow up pcvt even more ....
Shouldn't this knowledge be put into ddb for every driver ???
Comments ?
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Hamburg, Europe
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