From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 24 5: 8:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B5037B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 05:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6OC8UK10792; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:08:30 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:08:25 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? Message-ID: <20010724160822.B10585@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 21:07:40 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD > screen savers. Good idea. > We shall provide the "screen saver daemon" and a set of "screen saver > programs." The screen saver daemon will run in the background and > periodically checks if the console is idle. When it finds no > activity in the console, it will launch a specified "screen saver > program." No "periodical checks" please. It must wait on poll/select or kqevent or something like, event based, event provided by syscons. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message