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From: "Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com>
To: "Vladimir Kushnir" <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>,
	"Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com>
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Subject: RE: Screen saver module
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:10:53 -0000
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> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Jonathan Belson wrote:
>
> > I've written a screen saver module for syscons which uses
> > VESA modes (where available) for higher resolutions.
> >
> > It runs quite happily on my GeForce 2 but I found it
> > crashes almost straight away on a Matrox Millenium
> > when I try to run it in M_VESA_CG800x600 - I changed
> > the code to use 640x480 and it seemed fine.
> >

> It runs just as happily on Vanta here (FreeBSD-CURRENT). Thanks Jonathan.

Cheers for the report.  The code in its current state has now been
tested on five different graphics cards with no problems...it runs
fine on this machine (Matrox G400) at 800x600, so maybe it's just
the Millenium that has the problem with M_VESA_CG800x600.
 
> > The source is at http://www.witchspace.com//kix.tgz
> > Extract it in /usr/src/sys/modules/syscons, cd to
> > 'kix' and type 'make && make install'.
> 
> Would somebody commit it (with some warning message, perhaps)?

If they could, that would be great.

Cheers,


--Jon

http://www.witchspace.com

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