From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 12:41:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06130 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:41:03 -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 MAA06121; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:41:01 -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 MAA12121; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (j_mini@localhost) by garcia.efn.org (8.7.4/8.7.2) with SMTP id MAA26319; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:40:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: garcia.efn.org: j_mini owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:40:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Mini To: sos@FreeBSD.org cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen savers for syscons.... In-Reply-To: <199610211921.VAA01112@ravenock.cybercity.dk> 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, Soren Schmidt wrote: > They work on MDA's, atleast some of them (star, snake). Well, they should. ;) > > 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.) > ... but I never took it very seriously as most > people (including myself) runs X nowadays on "real" machines, and one > dont want a saver to keep the backlight alive on a laptop, so the > need is not that big. Besides it will only do in the std VGA modes > like 320x200x256 or 640x480x16, so either there is no resolution or > there is no colors ..... I know the thing about X. ;) But since we provide syscon screen saver support, we might as well do it right. =) I also have extensive experience with the VGA hardware, and I could whip up a library in no time. ;) Especially for a 256 color mode. 16 colors is also no real big deal, just a little time. And as to the "nor resolution or no colors," you'd be surprised what you can do. And in this situation, resolution or colors is NOT that big a deal. > If you get any graphic savers done, let me know, I'll consider them > for inclusion in the tree.... =) 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------