Screen saver: bsd_saver.

Pawel Jakub Dawidek nick at garage.freebsd.pl
Fri Jun 27 06:31:42 PDT 2003


On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:20:03AM +0000, Bosko Milekic wrote:
+> > >Hello there.
+> > >
+> > >I've wrote screen saver for FreeBSD 5.x with rotating "bsd" logo.
+> > >
+> > >	http://garage.freebsd.pl/bsd_saver.tbz
+> > >
+> > >Any chance to add it to tree?
+> > 
+> > I don't know whether it works or not, but this contains 
+> > floating point instruction, which is hardly used and needs cafeful 
+> > treatment. (As far as I know, FP instruction is used only on
+> > i586_bcopy) What do you think about it?
+> 
+>   FWIW, I've tested this yesterday and wanted to commit it but
+>   shamefully I must admit that I don't know how to properly prepare a
+>   port.  The screen saver works and is pretty neat although I had to
+>   build in low video mode.

Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm at theinternet.com.au> suggest me to automatically
turn on low video mode if there is no chance to turn on high and to
automaticly load vesa.ko if required.
I think, that those suggestion are good and I'll implement them.

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       pawel at dawidek.net
UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator     http://garage.freebsd.pl
Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!                     http://cerber.sourceforge.net
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