Re: syscons joy: reproduceable panic on resolution change

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:41:13 -0400
On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:00 am, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:18, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >> I am currently 40 miles (64 km) away from this system so it is sort of
> >> hard to switch VTs. I do have ssh access to the machine and the corefile
> >> that I obtained. I can spend some time this weekend trying to figure out
> >> a SoE for this... Wish me luck!
> >
> > Does vidcontrol -s X cause the problem?
>
> Locally, it works just fine. At the serial console, it yields the
> "Inapproriate ioctl for device" message that one would expect.

You can use 'vidcontrol -s X < /dev/ttyv0' as root I think.

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Received on Tue Apr 26 2005 - 16:47:17 UTC

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