From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 18 14:33:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06323 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:33:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06317 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20145; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:32:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd020013; Fri Sep 18 14:32:34 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA28530; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:32:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809182132.OAA28530@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ELF -current Screen Saver Issues ? To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 21:32:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: vanessa.voysey@k2c.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809170025.RAA03629@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from "Don Lewis" at Sep 16, 98 05:25:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm seeing the snake screensaver forget to clear the screen and do a > pacman number on whatever is text is displayed there. I don't have > any problems getting the console back if I hit return. > > One thing this shows is that the snake only touches half the character > positions on the screen ... This isn't really a problem. If you were trying to save a white or green phosphor screen from burn-in, you wouldn't be displaying something to "save" it. The idea that you can "save" a screen from burn-in by *displaying* stuff on it is idiotic... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message