From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 8 6:57:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from clueless.redbus.aaisp.net (clueless.redbus.aaisp.net [213.161.73.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04D6937B418 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 06:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from zebedee.innovision-group.com([217.169.2.11] HELO:witchspace.com) by clueless.redbus.aaisp.net for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:57:26 +0000 Message-ID: <3BEA9E6B.7FA44C8A@witchspace.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 15:02:03 +0000 From: Jonathan Belson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Screen saver module Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya I've written a screen saver module for syscons which uses VESA modes (where available) for higher resolutions. It runs quite happily on my GeForce 2 but I found it crashes almost straight away on a Matrox Millenium when I try to run it in M_VESA_CG800x600 - I changed the code to use 640x480 and it seemed fine. A thread in -stable suggests that there are bugs in either the Matrox hardware or firmware, but I'd be grateful if someone could give the module a go on their machine to see if there are any problems. It doesn't /require/ VESA support, but it looks a bit blocky with standard VGA. Please note that although I've had the current code running for hours on a GeForce2, Millenium 2 and G450, I can't rule out the possibility it could lock up the machine - please don't try it on mission-critical servers 8^) The source is at http://www.witchspace.com//kix.tgz Extract it in /usr/src/sys/modules/syscons, cd to 'kix' and type 'make && make install'. Cheers, --Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message