From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 7 9: 3:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFD537B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:03:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA50361; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:03:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Graham Wheeler Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help writing a screen saver module References: <3A06B7A7.7665C46A@cequrux.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Nov 2000 18:03:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Graham Wheeler's message of "Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:52:39 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graham Wheeler writes: > I am trying to write a screen saver module that, when it kicks in, will > switch to the first console, and then, if a key is pressed, will switch > back to the one that was previously active. The idea is that the first > console has something useful running on it, typically a tail -f of the > logs. Switching consoles causes syscons to stop the screensaver, which causes your code to try to switch back to the original console, which causes syscons to stop the screensaver since seems to be running. In other words, Don't Do That. Sorry. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message