From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 08:25:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA18410 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haus.efn.org (haus.efn.org [198.68.17.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA18402 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garcia.efn.org (j_mini@garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by haus.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16662 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (j_mini@localhost) by garcia.efn.org (8.7.4/8.7.2) with SMTP id IAA05450 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:25:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: garcia.efn.org: j_mini owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:25:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Mini To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Screen savers for syscons.... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lately I've been running FreeBSD 2.1.5-R with a MDA/Herc monitor, and I've been slowly getting annoyed at the screen savers (or lack thereof) for FreeBSD. Currently, I have to turn my monitor off, since the screen savers supplied with FreeBSD won't work on my MDA adapter. Is it jsut me or do they only work on VGA displays? (I haven't tried using an EGA display) If the screen savers only work on VGA displays, they should at least take advantage of the graphics device available. I'm planning on modifying the screen savers that come with FreeBSD 2.1.5-R to work with other display devices other than VGA. (like my mono system) AFter that, I'd like to write a few screen savers that use the 320x200x256 graphics mode of VGA to create a few decent screen savers. (let's face it, other than the "green" and "blank" screen savers everything else is pitiful.) I'm looking at wirting : - Text based screen savers which will work under any syscon. - a few 320x200 screen savers that work under VGA : - a decent star saver (like xrocks) I've a few other ideas, but none of them planned. Am I repeating code already written? If not, is there much of a need for a decent set of screen savers? And if so, are there any you guys would like to see in particular... ;) Jon Mini, j_mini@efn.org, mini@4j.lane.edu GAMMA Development Team -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...." little.blue.engine:Reality Protection Fault. (core dumped) --------------------------------------------------------------------------