From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 23:51:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10036 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA10002 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA15066; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:51:19 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA15703; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:51:18 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA08898; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:36:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608240636.IAA08898@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pcvt features To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:36:49 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: brianc@pobox.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608240136.VAA00244@ottawa.net> from Brian Campbell at "Aug 23, 96 09:36:04 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Campbell wrote: > Are there any plans for the pcvt driver to include the same support > for loadable screen savers as syscons? I hacked in support for the > green saver, which I suspect is the same way the stars saver got > in there. Wouldn't it be more convenient to support the lkm's? I once thought about lkm's (not only for the screen saver, but also for the hardware-dependant modules), but we never got round to implement it. You are free to do this if you want, and i promise to integrate your patches into the tree... > I was also wondering why pcvt restricted its [VGA] font support to 8, > 10, 14 and 16 scanline fonts. I'm getting used to 40-lines, but (in a > previous life) I used to run an 11 scanline font for 36 lines (I won't > mention that it supported 94 columns ;-) Hysterical raisons. By the time pcvt has been written (late 1992, originally for 386BSD), simply nobody thought about display font sizes. This requirement has been first faced to me when i've been playing with my (ancient) notebook that is used best with 480 scan lines. It is hard to break with such constraints without also breaking compatibility to older versions. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)