From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 12:32:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05517 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:32:44 -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 MAA05512 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:32:41 -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 MAA11310; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (j_mini@localhost) by garcia.efn.org (8.7.4/8.7.2) with SMTP id MAA25732; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: garcia.efn.org: j_mini owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Mini To: Joe Greco cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen savers for syscons.... In-Reply-To: <199610211627.LAA07012@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > No, they definitely do work on mono, CGA, and EGA displays. I have > machines with each of these. (I generally do not place a lot of > importance on the console of a machine...) I generally run star or > snake saver. Do not know about the others, but I would assume they > work. I haven't gotten them to work on anything but a VGA syscon... am I doing something wrong? > A few new savers might be cool but I am not sure I would want any that > try to do graphics modes... "Try" isn't the right word. I have a few programs written by my self an John-Mark Gurney (gurney_j@efn.org) that use /dev/mem and ioctl() calls to manipulate 320x200x256 (BIOS mode 13h -- like BIOS matters) it's not anything that'd require any modifications to anything other than a few new lkm's. 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------