From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 26 0:19:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF28737B405 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/26Jan01-1134AM) id f6Q7JWc360215; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:19:32 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/30Jan01-0241PM) id f6Q7JWl232960; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:19:32 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:pSQZYhD0zT1sjwPJVV0gm368l9qs8m3D@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.43.7]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W/zodiac-May2000) with ESMTP id QAA25125; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:29:08 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200107260729.QAA25125@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:05:07 MST." <3B5E7DB3.97656D3C@mindspring.com> References: <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <3B5E7DB3.97656D3C@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:29:07 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD >> screen savers. > >[ ... "performance degradation" ... ] > >[ ... "file access" ... ] > >I don't see either of these as being compelling arguments >in favor of a user space implementation; I guess this means >you want to do file access in your screen saver(s). Both points/complaints/requests have been raised several times in our mailing lists in the past. (Sorry, I don't keep copies.) Some people don't like cputime eaten up by the screen saver in the kernel... Some peopel want to write "interesting" screen savers... >Now if you could run Windows screen saver modules, you >might have a good argument for change, above and beyond >"change for the sake of change". Personally I am not interested in fancy screen savers :-) But, just want to keep things tidy and keep the system running smoothly. By moving much of the screen saver support from the console driver to the user-land... Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message