Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 15:02:03 +0000 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Screen saver module Message-ID: <3BEA9E6B.7FA44C8A@witchspace.com>
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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 <http://www.witchspace.com>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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