Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen savers for syscons.... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961021122954.25383B-100000@garcia.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199610211627.LAA07012@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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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
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