From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 07:09:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00375 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00309 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:09:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no (2602@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.131]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA23057; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:09:03 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:09:02 +0100 (MET) To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Graphical screen saver (was: Re: File I/O in kernel land (was: Re: 2nd warning: 2.2.6 BETA begins in 10 days!)) References: <16061.885755982.1@time.cdrom.com> <199801270529.XAA04108@detlev.UUCP> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 27 Jan 1998 16:08:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no's message of "27 Jan 1998 13:21:31 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) writes: > The problem is that scrn_timer() doesn't seem to be called when the > console is in VGA mode. I tried to comment out the graphics code and > [...] > scp->mode = M_VGA_CG320; > scp->status |= UNKNOWN_MODE; > set_mode(scp); Doh! Of course, scrn_timer() returns prematurely when scp->status has the UNKNOWN_MODE bit set. I removed the middle line in the above code and everything works perfectly. Just have to polish it a bit and find a nice picture of Chuck. -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"