From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Overriding X on panic
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:09:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061125160954.239e0d7e@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164434093.10503.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:54:53 -0500
Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Linus did say that he would do anything within reason to help desktop
> linux forward, and frankly a big step forward would be to get error
> messages to the user. What might be some safe options for overriding,
> switching away from, killing, or otherwise disposing of the X server
> when an unrecoverable Oops is about to occur on the TTY?
Assuming frame buffer support is present in the kernel you need an ioctl
that specifies the frame buffer depth/layout so the kernel can print
correctly on it. At that point most of the time you'll get the report out
- more than trying to mode switch probably.
Send patches
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-25 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-25 5:54 Overriding X on panic Casey Dahlin
2006-11-25 8:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-25 16:10 ` Alan
2006-11-26 2:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-11-26 8:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-26 14:22 ` Alan
2006-11-26 22:19 ` Dave Airlie
2006-11-26 22:42 ` D. Hazelton
2006-11-29 13:57 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-25 16:09 ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-26 12:40 ` James Courtier-Dutton
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