From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 3 01:55:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59398106568B for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:55:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (smtp1.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09BE8FC1E for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nox.student.utwente.nl (nox.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.91]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id o031srdU028758; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 02:54:53 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 02:54:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B3DDCDE.4040205@gmail.com> <4B3E0D36.1080102@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4B3F9263.3060208@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B3F9263.3060208@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201001030254.53320.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact icts.servicedesk@utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: rsmith@xs4all.nl, Manish Jain Subject: Re: Need help configuring upsd, sound and logo saver on freebsd 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:55:19 -0000 On Saturday 02 January 2010 19:37:23 Manish Jain wrote: > On 01/01/10 20:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Manish Jain wrote: > >> 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at > >> boot-time : > >> > >> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0xffffffff81044010, 0) > >> error 19 > > > > Seems to be a long standing bug on amd64 systems: graphics based console > > screen savers don't work. Any of the text based screen savers will > > function correctly, although they don't look as nice. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew > > Hello Matthew, > > Thanks for your reply. The only point that remains to be made is that I > find the 'Cheers' at the end of your message quite ironic. > > Being the owner of 2 kittens, I must dutifully assert that there is > nothing to cheer about under the current situation. For the three of us, > it has been a long-standing favourite pastime to watch Chuck in action. > We would miss football (for some reason called soccer in the US) games / > cricket games / movies / all other forms of entertainment, just to wait > and watch for Chuck to show up. My kittens never managed to grab him, > despite numerous valiant efforts. But this never undermined the > fascination all three of us shared for Chuck. > > If ever the FreeBSD operating system or AMD processors had a bug, this > would be it. Above all, even to someone not in love with cats, having a > genial and smiling mouse would be infinitely preferable to having such a > nasty bug. > > > Cheers > > Manish Jain > invalid.pointer@gmail.com I can report that logo_saver works great on FreeBSD-CURRENT/amd64 with vesa loaded and options SC_PIXEL_MODE in the kernel configuration. Vesa support for amd64 systems was introduced after FreeBSD 8 was branched. Regards, Pieter