misc/152232: syscons VGA screensavers don't work on some computers. Here's a patch.

crocket crockabiscuit at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 14 12:30:13 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR kern/152232; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: crocket <crockabiscuit at yahoo.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/152232: syscons VGA screensavers don't work on some computers. Here's a patch.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:21:39 -0800 (PST)

 Be aware that such ascii screensavers as daemon_saver.ko and snake_saver.ko can't be executed in VGA video modes.
 Those ascii screensavers are executable on such video modes as 80x25, 80x30, etc...
 
 Available video modes are displayed by "vidcontrol -i mode"
 
 
       


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