From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 16 02:51:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA19771 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 02:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fox.uni-trier.de (blank@fox.uni-trier.de [136.199.8.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA19766 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 02:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from blank@localhost) by fox.uni-trier.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15611; Fri, 16 May 1997 11:51:12 +0200 From: Sascha Blank Message-Id: <199705160951.LAA15611@fox.uni-trier.de> Subject: Re: stars screen saver problem... (oops) In-Reply-To: from Lee Crites at "May 15, 97 11:40:40 am" To: leec@adam.adonai.net Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:51:11 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: george@lincc.lib.or.us, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: blank@fox.uni-trier.de (Sascha Blank) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, > Sorry, I must not have been clear enough. I found what needed to be > changed to get the screen saver working. The problem is now that is is > working, all it is doing is changing the one byte at (0,0) on the > screen. When it kicks on (after 300 seconds), I see spot (0,0) to wild > with flashing characters and nothing else is changed. I remember that I had this problem some months ago for a short time. It became apperant when there were changes done to the syscons driver in the kernel and I forgot to rebuild my lkms, so they were slightly out of date. The problem went away when I rebuilt them. -- Sascha Blank - mailto:blank@fox.uni-trier.de Student and System Administrator at the University of Trier, Germany Finger my account to receive my Public PGP key I don't speak for my employers, they don't pay me enough for that.