Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:07:44 +0100 From: Steve Roome <stephen_roome@yahoo.com> To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, stephen_roome@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? Message-ID: <20010724160744.C349@dylan.home>
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Hi, a friend of mine just forwarded this to me. I've just been looking at writing graphical stuff, firstly screen savers for the console using vgl. In fact we were talking about this exact idea just last week. (As my code doesn't like being run in the kernel - because while it's in devel it still does the occasioanal segfault - oops!) So, I've got some work in progress for the application part of this. Are there any plans on how the kernel might go about calling the userland side of this, any docs, need proposals etc ? Personally, I'm in favour, I *hate* the kld interface for screensavers! However, I'm still using 4.3, is there a huge difference with vgl/vesa in -current ? (I assume the userland end would want to use vgl ?) Oh one other thing, it would be nice if a screensaver could be linked to a syscons vty and vgl access could be done without root perms. Or something like that. I particularly like the idea that one could choose their own screensaver if they are logged in and the system can have a default of something else when the tty is waiting on getty. So, I am VERY interested in seeing this move forward and can test things, or perhaps code things, once I've reread the style guide! > I will publish sample implementation once VESA support in -CURRENT > stabilizes. I've got a sample vgl screensaver type app that does a similar thing to fire_saver.c, just not wrapped as a screensaver yet. (It does however use al available CPU right now =)) Steve Roome P.S. I'm not subscribed to this list, so please include me in any replies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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