wscons for FreeBSD?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <4362B611.B4A12AF8 at verizon.net>
            Sergey Babkin <babkin at verizon.net> writes:
: John Baldwin wrote:
: > 
: > On Friday 28 October 2005 01:24 pm, Sergey Babkin wrote:
: > > >From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
: > > >
: 
: > > * When entering panic/debugger mode the console
: > >   should reset its video mode to the one where
: > >   the panic information is visible.
: > 
: > I think this might be kind of hard since you really don't know what X has done
: > to the hardware unless you make X talk to the console driver to do
: > everything.
: 
: Can you re-initialize the device from scratch? My knowledge
: about the video hardware dates to SVGA times and even that
: is not too deep.
: 
: Maybe provide a basic SVGA re-initialization routine on x86 and have
: an interface for the third-party in-kernel drivers that
: would contain the re-initialization routine.

When this has come up in the past, those in the know say that it takes
card specific registers and knowledge to reset these cards' video
modes.

Warner