Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 20:13:09 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: leec@adam.adonai.net Cc: george@lincc.lib.or.us, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stars screen saver problem... (oops) Message-ID: <199705151813.UAA00478@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970515113410.11512D-100000@adam.adonai.net> from Lee Crites at "May 15, 97 11:40:40 am"
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In reply to Lee Crites who wrote:
> Sorry, I must not have been clear enough. I found what needed to be
> changed to get the screen saver working. The problem is now that is is
> working, all it is doing is changing the one byte at (0,0) on the
> screen. When it kicks on (after 300 seconds), I see spot (0,0) to wild
> with flashing characters and nothing else is changed.
>
> I'll a few more bits of info:
>
> * I'm not using X
>
> * Since console messages show up on the alt-f1 screen, and I don't want
> to screw them up, I am almost always in one of the others -- normally
> alt-f2, where I am running the "systat -vmstat 2" command.
It sounds as if your star_saver lkm is out of sync with the
kernel. You mentioned that you've upgraded from 2.1.x to 2.2, have
you recompiled BOTH the kernel & the lkm's ??
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Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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