I think I just got a panic

[Matthew Dillon]

:maybe we should add an emergency video and keyboard reset to panic(). I 
:think that's a better way than trying to guess what video mode is 
:running and adopt to that (or such), like other operating systems try 
:to do (linux). we could even make a pinkscreen! (or redscreen, or 
:bluescreen!)
:
:cheers
:   simon

    Unfortunately that might be difficult, because only X really knows how
    to properly reset the video, and only X really knows how to render to
    the frame buffer.  We could attempt to make the appropriate video BIOS
    calls but it's a toss-up whether they would actually work.

						-Matt